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To: Slyfox
To be educated to freedom must be evidenced in action, and here again is where we ask ourselves, as we have asked our parents and our teachers, questions about integrity, trust, and respect. Those three words mean different things to all of us. Some of the things they can mean, for instance: Integrity, the courage to be whole, to try to mold an entire person in this particular context, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. If the only tool we have ultimately to use is our lives, so we use it in the way we can by choosing a way to live that will demonstrate the way we feel and the way we know. Integrity -- a man like Paul Santmire. Trust. This is one word that when I asked the class at our rehearsal what it was they wanted me to say for them, everyone came up to me and said "Talk about trust, talk about the lack of trust both for us and the way we feel about others. Talk about the trust bust." What can you say about it? What can you say about a feeling that permeates a generation and that perhaps is not even understood by those who are distrusted? All they can do is keep trying again and again and again. There's that wonderful line in East Coker by Eliot about there's only the trying, again and again and again; to win again what we've lost before.

Huh??? Was she high? Or just a babbling idiot? Oh well, she obviously had what it takes to be a politician, even then--in other words, the ability to go on and on and on, without saying anything. The fact that she does it so inarticulately makes one wonder how she could have been selected, out of 400 students, to give this address. She must have had extensive files on the other students...

29 posted on 01/08/2003 9:40:03 PM PST by giotto
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To: giotto
Oh well, she obviously had what it takes to be a politician, even then--in other words, the ability to go on and on and on, without saying anything.

She was speaking to the Radicals in the audience. Take heart. If you didn't understand it you must not be a Radical.

30 posted on 01/09/2003 7:07:11 AM PST by Slyfox
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