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WCDT: Independence Day Week (4 - 8 July, 1961-1965)
ElvisRevenge:
Reading this comic again made me realize how much I miss these two talking to each other while single. Dora's smirk at Marten's awkwardness? So good.
themacnut:
It has been mentioned that some may want Marten to apologize for his drunken remarks to Faye. I've been thinking about that, and I have to ask; how can he apologize for something he obviously doesn't even remember doing/saying? Would such an apology really even mean anything?
Faye herself seems to have decided an apology wasn't important, hence her "encouraging" Marten to drop the subject when he bought it up next morning.
wrwight:
What post are you referring to? The only one I see that mentions anything about Marten apologizing does so in the context of saying what you just did, that he can't apologize because he doesn't remember.
Tova:
I felt like creating a wordle from this thread, just for amusement and cusiosity.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: FrozenPeas on 09 Jul 2011, 11:06 ---although we’re all interacting with the text in different ways, what’s important is that all of those ways are incredibly intimate and personal, [...] So, [...] it’s important that, when we do get worked up, we [...] remember that not everyone is sharing our idiosyncratic experience and [...] examine why we’re so invested in the text,
--- End quote ---
Or as I often express it, people relate to the story in different ways.
Some people are only aware of their own interpretation, which bears on their personal life experiences, and may tend to see the presentation of an alternative view of the story as being an attack on theirs, and hence an attack on the validity of their own lives. This leads them to respond with a vehemence that can appear to come out of nowhere, and which seems out of proportion when a wider range of interpretations is considered; it's also what leads to the arguments getting personal. I see one of my roles as moderator being to try to get over to people that this is what is happening when they get so worked up (and - a real problem at times, this - to do that without coming over as patronising).
So if there is, as someone suggested, a split of this community into two parts, I would characterise them as being those who see the story as related solely to their own lives, and those who have found how to relate it to the lives of others as well, and thus see it with a wider perspective. The groups probably have differently skewed age distributions, because of the wider range of experiences that age tends to bring, though I would emphasise that there is not a simple youth/adult division.
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