Subject: RE: Ghost World
From: horanp (horanp@kenyon.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 13:44:06 GMT
Zaz,
>you really got THREE sisters? Hey i got four brothers!
Actually, I have four sisters and two brothers. One older sister, one
older brother, and the rest obviously younger (that makes seven total,
not including parents).
>so how come they got so cynical?
It's more complicated that I explained; more to do with nature *and*
nurture than anything else, but still depressing.
>So how did you parents get your sisters so evenly spread
>out over the years? Do they also have close birthdays?
We're all two years apart, give or take a few months. Birthdays are Feb,
May, June, Oct, 2 in Nov, and Dec.
>I read somewhere recently that the American ideal is actually 4
>years difference between siblings, but maybe that is just upper middle
>or upper class ideals.
2 years apart is definitely not something I would encourage. Had my
sister finished college, they would have had three graduations the same
year. Memorable, perhaps, but hard to plan and expensive as hell.
Plus, every time one kid is almost into where he or she is getting
comfortable driving, another one comes along that needs to learn how.
>If u r the only boy, my heart goes out to u ... poor boy! ;-)
Right now, I am, since my brother is working in another city and my
younger brother is a little girlie himself. Thank you for the sympathy.
>which art do you mean, CITR? I don't think mocking is a major part of
>the book
No, it's not, but I meant more with what they see on TV and what parents
describe as a "natural part of growing up." I heard someone say that it's
interesting that high schoolers have to endure, virtually sympathy-free,
treatment that, in the America workplace, would be considered an
outrage.
>Dear Pete,
>Do you realize how many non-native speakers don't know
>that 'gay' means 'happy'?
I know what you mean--it's ridiculous. Also most people don't realize
that the word "fag" (another horrible slang for homosexuals used here in
America far too often by adolescents) refers to how they were executed
in the not-too-distant past. "Fag" of course meaning a bundle of sticks
which was lit on fire as they burned at the stake.
>how old are YOU anyway? I thought u were like 25 or something?
Why, goodness no sweetheart, I'm *your* age...19 right?
Pete.
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