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shindell-list-digest      Saturday, May 20 2000      Volume 02 : Number 076



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [RS] new virus warning                     ["L. Davis" <ldavis@connix.com>]
  [RS] Reunion Hill question   ["Norman A. Johnson" <njohnson@ent.umass.edu>]
  Re: [RS] Reunion Hill question                              [TRNMT@aol.com]
  [RS] Re: Reunion Hill question                           [ptpower@juno.com]

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:27:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "L. Davis" <ldavis@connix.com>
Subject: [RS] new virus warning

Same type, but worse effects:  wipes out harddrives AND networked drives.
Beware .vbs extensions and subject lines that begin [FW]!

lisa

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:41:01 -0400
From: "Norman A. Johnson" <njohnson@ent.umass.edu>
Subject: [RS] Reunion Hill question

For some reason, this is bothering me.

Why wouldn't the narrator tell us about the dream she had the last time she
climbed RH. Is it too horrifying? Too private?

Related to "Reunion Hill": For those on this list who are not on Dar's,
Richard's name has popped up several times. In the course of SOTW
discussions on Dar's "Alleluia", the subject of the narrator's gender arose
and that led to discussions about writer's writing songs with narrators of
different gender. 

Norman

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:45:43 EDT
From: TRNMT@aol.com
Subject: Re: [RS] Reunion Hill question

Norman, who is now 34, but who's counting, wrote:
<< For some reason, this is bothering me.
 
 Why wouldn't the narrator tell us about the dream she had the last time she
 climbed RH. Is it too horrifying? Too private?  >>
Gosh, haven't we all had dreams that were too real or too bizarre or too 
personal to share with anyone?  This frame of reference is another time, too, 
when people just didn't go around sharing every little thing.  Hmmm.  The war 
between the states ended in 1864.  Ten years hence is 1874.  My 
great-grandmother Nancy was 16.  If she raised her kids (my grandmother, b. 
1891, was the baby) like unto herself, then you just didn't blab that stuff.  
I think people of that era kept there emotions in check.  

I imagine the dream as something that gave her some closure, and perhaps even 
some peace, like her husband coming to her and telling her that he was okay, 
where ever he was, and maybe for her, the reality that he was really dead was 
just too much for her to talk about.

Or maybe ... she dreamed about one of the soldiers she'd tended to, and had 
betrayed her husband's memory.

Nancy

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 23:44:39 -0700
From: ptpower@juno.com
Subject: [RS] Re: Reunion Hill question

The ever-aging Norman posed:

<<For some reason, this is bothering me.  Why wouldn't the narrator tell
us about the dream she had the last time she climbed RH. Is it too
horrifying? Too private?>>

I have often wondered, actually, if the story that is told after "I
dreamed a dream I will not tell"  IS  the dream that she dreamed.

Pat

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