From
David Still
<ds@davidstill.org>
To
Matthew Tiews
<mtiews@stanford.edu>
Re:
Thanks!
MESSAGE
Matthew Tiews wrote: Dear David, I was touched by your expression of gratitude for our conversation, which I remember with such fond nostalgia that it almost seems as though it never really took place. But my pleasure quickly turned to indignation when I discovered that, in appreciation of what must have been a unique and special encounter, you saw fit to send a preestablished stock message, one which emits the stale odor of the many inboxes it has already promiscuously inhabited. Surely my vital contributions to your psychic well-being, couched in well-wrought phrases and enlivened with sparkling wit, should have merited if nothing less a modification or two to this communal, and common, missive. Despite my disappointment, I remain favorably disposed, and should you ever choose what is obviously the only appropriate course of action, you may count on me for unalloyed support. Yours etc. Matthew