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- From: st891487@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Schwartzberg, Queen of Spades)
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- Subject: Re: How to have a good cry?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.220029.13922@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:00:29 GMT
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- In article <30837@castle.ed.ac.uk>, moragw@castle.ed.ac.uk (Alloy Serving Woman) writes:
- >
- >I suppose I have to feel horribly lonely to reach the stage of tears but
- >if I allow myself to get to that stage I find I just keep on heading
- >downhill untill I'm contemplating razor blades, there's no happy medium.
-
- NO, NO, NO, Don't do it, aaaaaaaaaaagh, oh sorry false alarm, I shouldn't be
- flip on this thread I suppose.
-
- >I think I used up all my tears when I was a child, I am aggresively
- >defensive when upset nowadays.
-
- Yeh me too. Although I tend to swallow it for awhile before exploding at the
- nearest innocent bystander, having been taught that "defensive is bad" (i.e.
- got the line,"Why are you being so defensive?" when the obvious answer is
- "Because I'm under attack!!"
-
- >I suppose the anger is either directed
- >in or out and out is best (although a damn sight harder to explain to
- >the landlord:' yeah, sorry, I dropped the knife and it got stuck in the
- >ceiling.')
-
- Better than in your chest. Or someone else's. This way you and your landlord
- are still around for us to chuckle at.
-
- >I used to buy cheap crockery from jumble sales and take them
- >out to the drive where I'd hurl them at the wall. It was very
- >satisfying. Now I take trips to the bottle bank and smash glass to my
- >hearts content. I am a mellow person really.
-
- And I'm a gentle and harmless creature. No really. Of Course I believe you Mo.
-
- >Um, this was supposed to be How To Cry, I appear to have been
- >sidetracked by Feelings of Deep Discontent. Time for a eco-friendly
- >recycling trip methinks.
-
- There there baby, it'll be OK. <electronic transmission of warm fuzziness
- courtesy of my Christmas sweater>
- >Mellow Mo
-
- -Schwartzberg the terminally gentle and sweet.
-
- >(Where's my sig gone THIS time? OI! Paul Crowley, I need your skills.)
- >
- It's eloped with me since you won't.
-
- -X
-