Shalome said:
You know, if you wrote up a short blurb and submitted it to the newswire (probably under "Culture"), you would have 15 army points and you wouldn't have had to give your thread title a fake NEWS: header.
That said, it's a shame about Mr. Miller.
Could care less about the army points. Sorry, I am actually pretty broken up about this and wanted to share. Thanks for the lecture, though.
And you couldn't share by submitting it as a news item?
Snapping at someone that is only trying to help you is Not A Nice Thing
Yeah. I should have submitted a news item. Honestly, I didn't know the difference between submitting it to the newswire and just throwing it up. I thought the stuff submitted to the newswire was the stuff that went up on the front page and I didn't care to do that.
I didn't mean to snap and I'm sorry if I did, but I was under the impression that i was being snapped AT. I had just said that someone who I really cared about had died and the first thing I got was someone telling me I was doing this all wrong. Now, I understand I needed to be told, but I felt like something like: "I'm sorry to hear that. Too bad about Mr. Miller... P.S. there's a better way of doing this yadda yadda yadda." would have been more appropriate. Or maybe I was being overly sensitive. I don't know, probably the latter.
Perhaps because he was a wonderful artist and arguably the greatest American playwrite.
I've had this told to me for as long as I've known who Arthur Miller is, with the only consistant qualifiers being that Death of a Salesman is a critique of the American Dream and The Crucible is a critique of McCarthyism. I haven't disliked his plays, but I can't say I experienced their genius, so if he's hero material I'm curious why myself.
Subrosa
San Francisco, CA
July 2004
FEB 12, 2005 09:15 AM