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- From: jns@elea.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: bear vs. twink
- Message-ID: <17161@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 01:37:27 GMT
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- Organization: Militant Homosexual Lobby, Gay Lifestyles, Inc.
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- Jeff Norris (norris@infonode.ingr.com) wrote:
-
- > When I visited Portland last week, I had to ask Mark how I would know him
- > in a crowded restaurant. It occured to me then how I have become acquainted
- > with so many of you with very little idea of how you look....
-
- It's a strange phenomenon. I seem not to worry about
- the appearance--*actual* physical looks--of e-friends,
- nor try to visualize or imagine. But, I do find that
- people who write here, and correspondants, do have an
- appearance for me on the screen that I learn to recognize
- and welcome.
-
- Maybe it's in part their headers [changing news readers
- was hell], maybe their addresses, the way they format
- their paragraphs, or the shape and texture of their
- writing. I don't really know. [Perhaps it's similar
- to the way that the scores of composers, who have their
- own sound, also tend to have an identifiable *look*.]
-
- Anyway, when I finally meet someone, there's usually not
- much surprise, because there's not too much in the way
- of visual expectation. With one exception: height. I've
- had this funny feeling on several occasions that people
- have been shorter than they write. Sometimes.
-
- I don't know whether I write as tall as I am.
-
- > -jeff [who has never described his appearance to this group, but wonders
- > how others imagine him. (careful, I have a fragile ego)]
-
- Thank goodness we're not fishing for compliments.
-
- I can't quite answer the question, since I've viewed
- the goods [or, as it were, more like *half* the goods],
- which has spoiled my _ab initio_ imagining of your
- appearance. However, it's opened up the possibility
- of imagining you in, ahem, several different ways.
-
- I think I'll let 'yummy' sum up my feelings.
-
- As a hint for readers who are enticed but have limited
- travel budgets: long-distance telephone is reasonably
- economical, and Jeff's is a voice to *die* for. Be
- prepared for meltdown.
-
- So there.
-
- [No, I don't intend to ask whether I look the way I write.]
-
- --jns
-