On Sunday, December 20, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Michael Zeleny wrote:
Ron Hardin <[email protected]> wrote:
Michael Zeleny wrote:
What do you do best? Take the question seriously and try to
make sense of it.
I am best at affronting people -- which is not to imply my superiority
to the barbarian hordes of disenfranchised shit comedians pouring over >>the ragged rudiments of the Iron Curtain.
I think you are better at reading than affronting.
Yet nobody says you should make a living reading, or, as the case may be, >affronting.
The range of socially accepted career paths that directly continue my academic training in close reading, extends from investment banking to
burger flipping, by way of sitcom writing. Not that any of that is
remotely relevant to the plight of an American specialist threatened
by competition from cheap foreign labor.
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