From
David Still
<ds@davidstill.org>
To
jovian francey
<jf@artstar.com>
Re:
something to confess
MESSAGE
jovian francey wrote: Hi, David Oh, don't worry. There's no shame in being taken in by your own tactics when they are so clever and cunning. It simply shows a supple, capable mind that is able to think beyond its own limitations. And despite the change to capitalized letters, my e-mail analysis program, which works much like a handwriting analysis, has decided that there is an 83% chance that the writer of the below message is the same writer as the first message replied to. As such we can deduce that if you are not the real "David Still," which I am growing to suspect is likely a nom de net, you are at the very least the site owner. I suspect that after pouring your soul out, you did not want to take responsibility for detailing your past disappointments in love. However, be strong and admit your past follies so that you may grow stronger from them. And never fear, e-mail is still one of the many circuitous roads that leads to love. Mind you, I find it helpful to have had some real life contact before the e-mail romance begins. But I have had many long-lasting rewarding experiences that have begun with a "stoking of the fires" as it were by e-mail. So while I feel convinced you are the real "David Still," we must consider what is real. Are glowing words on a screen real, or are they just symbols dancing in phosphorous that our mind, addicted to finding patterns and meanings, insists must indicate the precense of something beyond. That is, we all have a little David Still in each and everyone of us. and i live on surreality street, - jove p.s. when are the david still t-shirts to go on sale? --- Original Message --- > Hi, Jovian > It was wonderful to get to read your story, but also what you had received as a reply, since this wouldn't have appeared on the site if you hadn't carefully quoted it. > You certainly realise that this friendly and thoughtful David who answered your love letter was just one of the site contributors, reading and replying from the 'reply email' page, and never to be identified. > Just like me. > Just like you, if you reply to your own letter now. > Or if you had already replied to your own letter and quoted it in your own reply.... > That's how it goes on Reality Street! > Everybody lives there and is David Still. > And so are you. > (self)love, forever > David (Still)