Maggz, I agree with you in that we're not reading from the same page. You keep asking who I am, my name is Kevin Michael O'Connor. Yes, I remember that we had some email contact awhile back in which you expressed your dissapointment that I wasn't going to pursue a teaching career, and I wrote back telling you, politely but in no uncertain terms that it's my life and my decission.
-KMO
maggs wrote:
>
> One more thing, lambchop, this lovely l o n g
> passage you quoted is not what you marked off for your precious pearl. i
> have the paperback.
>
> Gestalt....down superman. If you at least monitor your email once in
> a while, or if you remember me slightly, you would not make this
> statement...damn, it ain't KMO. I knew it! Actually I am. After all, i
> always had more than one email address. Let me demonstrate:
>
> ~kmo v ~kmo
> ~kmo~kmo
> ~km~kmo
> ~k~kmo
> ~~kmo
> :. kmo
>
> So, "who r u?"
>
> Maggz c680910@showme.missouri.edu
> "I am more than what you define and delienate me to be" Elizabeth
> Wurtzel
>
> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, KMO wrote:
>
> > maggs wrote:
> > >
> > > Kmo taught Logic
> >
> > KMO undergoes a gestalt shift.
> >
> > > Kmo introduced me to "the alien book"
> >
> > Ah, that would be "Communion" by Whitley Strieber. I just pulled it off
> > the shelf and opened to page 24. Here is the passage I have marked on
> > that page:
> >
> > =======================================================================
> >
> > The next thing I knew, the figure came rushing into the room. I recall
> > only blackness after that, for an unkown period of time. I don't
> > remember falling asleep or lying awake. What I do remember is far, far
> > more disturbing. My next conscious recollection is of being in motion. I
> > was naked, with my arms and legs extended, as if I had been frozen in
> > mid-leap. I was moving out of the room. There was no physical sensation
> > at all, not of being touched, not of being warm or cold. I could feel
> > myself as a shape and a mass, but not in terms of sensation. It was as
> > if I had become profoundly paralyzed. Although I wanted desperately to
> > move, I could not.
> >
> > Because of my state of apparent paralysis, I am afraid that I cannot
> > report that I was floating along on some magical pallet or a flying
> > carpet. It could easily be that I was being carried. In any case, I was
> > at this point in a state of panic. Something was hideosly wrong, so
> > wrong that my mind went blank. I couldn't think. Even if I had been able
> > to make a sound, which I doubt, I couldn't try.
> >
> > I must have blacked out again, because I have further memories of being
> > moved. The next thing I knew, I was sitting in a small sort of
> > depression in the woods. It was quite dark, and frozen creeper was
> > pressing tightly around me. I remember being starled that there was no
> > snow on the gray earth.
> >
> > =======================================================================
> >
> > > Kmo is an amazingly clear mathematical mind
> >
> > Less so in comparison to a lot of the folks on this list than in
> > comparison to the general public.
> >
> > > Kmo could cleverly intuit any statement I made (such is experience) and
> > > be damn close to what I meant
> >
> > Which doesn't off-load any of your responsibility for clear
> > communication onto KMO's shoulders.
> >
> > > Kmo was the only respectful male I have met to date at UMC
> > > (what I mean here kids is that he was the only person among you
> > > who
> > > demonstrated respect for another individual. And , in the 3 years I have
> > > attended MU, no one else has)
> >
> > I don't know what to say to that. There are a lot of good people there,
> > but, like anywhere, there are a lot of people who are quite adept at
> > justifying their selfish actions. I'm sorry that you have encountered so
> > many of the latter variety.
> >
> > > Kmo never, never, never made sexual advances as many of his
> > > contemporaries have done in the justified false belief mode they have that
> > > they are imitating him.
> >
> > Eeek. When you put it that emphatically, it makes it sound as though
> > someone else has made claims to the contrary.
> >
> > > Kmo, come out, come out wherever you are.
> >
> > KMO is in Seattle.
> >
> > > No, I do not mean of a
> > > closet like the pathetic lesbian cases who swarm around me like maggots
> > > whenever a male and I frown at each other. i would feel compassion but i
> > > barely muster up disdain for them. (by the way girls, the only reason the
> > > guys support you in your edeavor is so they can watch...not bad for
> > > someone my age, eh? Hopefully you'll be as.....well....I choose the
> > > virtue of humility)
> > >
> > > With all those questions pertaining to the cave write up...I'm
> > > starting to feel insecure. KMO...have you lost your mind?
> >
> > The side of KMO's mind that you saw in logic class is still at work, but
> > logic has strong representation on this list already.
> >
> >
> > -KMO
> >