1. Creating conversation by pressing a link: Which invitations do third-parties accept? Lois Ann Scheidt

5. Sample of a Professional-Lurker post A wonderful quote on skinning the onion (posted June 17, 2005) I have been working on quals today and noting some points that probably will turn up in later writings. In trying to answer a question for myself I spent sometime rereading Suzanne L. Bunkers homepage. In doing so I ran across this quote: I'm only supposed to tell one story at a time, one story. Every writing course I ever heard of said the same thing. Take one story, follow it through, beginning, middle, end. I don't do that. I never do. Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear. Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence. -- From Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure Allison says it well, there are always so many things I want to say when I write here or in a paper, so many layers, so many levels of the work, and the process, and my world as I work on it. How to say everything I need to say and want to say beyond what I must say. Her words will resonate as I go back to my current section of the quals paper.

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