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Re: RAT Re: Rat Spat
>Brad,
> I appreciate your response. But as a way of further clarification:
>
>>Jonothan, included the text that you quoted were the words....
>>
>>....It doesn't
>>>>really
>>>>matter.
>
>Perhaps not to you. But it does matter to me. Quite a bit, in fact, when
>my name is associated with an implied lie or a partial truth. For all the
>theatrical talk of "community", and "sharing" and such, it finally boils
>down to what people believe about each other. And people have a tendency
>to believe what they hear and what they read. For that reason I have a
>reputation for constant, and sometimes brutal, honesty.
Fact: I was asked, by someone I did not know, if the company I worked with
wanted to participate in the First Seattle Fringe Festival.
Fact: I replied that I could not speak for the group and would have to get
back to the man.
Fact: after much debate within our own ranks about whether we wanted to
implicitly lable political theatre as Fringe by giving our work and name to
the festival, ( with me pushing for us to do it) we decided to go forward.
Fact: As the date got nearer, I myself logged twelve unreturned calls to
Fringe Festival HQ.
Fact: at the very last moment, we got a call telling us that the board
didn't feel we would work, offering no explanaton, and saying goodbye.
Those are the facts. All else is conjecture, admittedly... However, if one
reads betwen the lines, doesn't a picture appear? Since SFF gave us nothing
to go on, we had to draw our own picture, which was naturally unflattering
to SFF organizers. Can you blame us??
I'm a bit of a
>stickler. And with that in mind, I am not Karen's "lover" as you also
>said. I don't know Karen.
As a stickler, you should appreciate the following quote:
>X-Authentication-Warning: parachute.whirl-i-gig.com: majordom set sender
>to owner-rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com using -f
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:41:13 +0000
>Subject: RAT Re: obscurity
>X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-8
>From: Ezra Buzzington <jonoh1@juno.com>
>Sender: owner-rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Reply-To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>
>
>>
>>I think I love you.
>
>Thank you. I love you too, complete stranger.
>
>Break a leg,
>
>Jonathan
>
Those are your words, Jonathan. I know what I know. Maybe you meant them
in jest, but, as you never fail to point out , language is a VERY
powerful thing. Two people who love each other seem to add up to lovers to
me, even if only in the largest sense of the word.
>
>I have no hatchet to bury. But I'm more than happy to lend you a shovel.
Wait..<brain comes to screeching halt> A SHOVEL?? Why? to dig myself out
of a perceived hole? To bury you? I don't get it..... Please clarify.
Yours in sticklerdom,
Brad Rothbart