Re: cheap manhoods


Subject: Re: cheap manhoods
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 13:07:40 EDT


On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 01:05:22PM +0100, Scottie Bowman wrote:
 
> '... hasn't been reading Hardt and Negri ...'
>
> No, but many the happy hour on the old tiger skin
> with Pola.

Ah, have we now reached a point of devaluing our states of reaching (or
having reached) adulthood? Too much for me, I admit, having attained it
at great cost and effort, so I hope not!

And I trust (with fragile, perhaps futile, hope) that we are not conducting
evaluations of "manhood" in that Hemingway mock-heroic sense, for that is
far too fraught with icebergs -- for all our fields; in this case,
Scottie's, Matt's, and my own -- to allow me to engage in the task
comfortably. Somewhere along the bruised path, I picked up the idea that
the trek to "manhood" and "womanhood" is too complicated and unique to the
person making the trip for any of us to generalize too readily.

But my mail service is irregular, and I have seen but Scottie's and Matt's
messages, and therefore apologize if there were others in the chain which
I have not yet digested. Whether your path was by trail or by Pola
tiger skin, salut on having made it. If you're still en route, well, make
careful note of the surprises that greet you!

Cheers,

--tim (still puzzling as to where "adulthood" and "manhood" began)
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