Paul, your reply on the work you are doing is actually to Judy's request, that I had been careless in copying to my message, in haste. So Judy's words look like mine by the end of the message. Rather well written, aren't they?
And is it possible that this faux pas contributed to thinking of Mimesis? All I can say is: http://www.icarus.net/johnjo/bill-cat.htm
But it turns out that your work is very interesting anyway, Paul, and it is nice that something good came out of the snafu. My interest is in what you are doing to create new learning settings.
I had really wanted to make a connection between what Victoria and Judy had written, that involves communication ecology, affect, genre, etc. But that effort turns out to have been "snarked". Ack!
Maybe, as in Alice's restaurant, when the tune comes around again...
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