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April 24, 2006 |
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So You Know
FOUND by Kevin Morgan-Rothschild
in Amherst, Massachusetts
Found this on the floor in the culinary arts/ foods room of my high school.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Too late!
I swear I could've written this for my boyfriend...
i like this, it kinda sounds like...me. haha.
Wow, this is so very Douglas Hofstadter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference#Ex
This is a dead sneaky way to gain someone's attention... kind of self derogatory, but manipulative too... it sounds like I might have written it too! ;-)
This is a dead sneaky way to gain someone's attention... kind of self derogatory, but manipulative too... it sounds like I might have written it too! ;-)
I don't think it's a work of manipulative self-reference... it was probably written on the outside fold of a larger note, and intended (it sounds to me) to be a bit snappy to the recipient, but also understanding that the writer has done something wrong. I think.
Ugh, I hate stuff like that. If I probably won't want to read it, then WHY DID YOU WRITE IT TO ME? As said above, I think it's manipulative, not to mention passive aggressive and just plain annoying. I would have thrown the rest of the letter in the trash, unread.
This looks like something Marvin (the robot in Hitchhiker's Guide)would write.
I've started at least a dozen notes,letters, IMs, or emails like this. I always wonder if they actully DID end up reading it...
I laughed when I read this because it's something I would write. I think it sounds a little sarcastic, like the person being written to has complained about the author being whiny. Hilarious anyway.
P.S. Love the mention of Marvin.
sounds like a modest whiny pants.
Erin in Indiana said: "I would have thrown the rest of the letter in the trash, unread."
Or you could have just clicked on your mouse button to avoid reading it and post a comment about it. But you didn't and you did. Mission accomplished by the writer.
Millenium sapphires eat outer space.
I wonder who wrote it...that's pretty great.
And I must say, I love Marvin, so I approach this with humor rather than annoyance.
I love a note with a disclaimer.
Brain the size of a planet...
Now you mentioned Marvin I hear this in his (Stephen Moore's) droning voice. Brilliant!
Or maybe it's Eeyore.
Good test: if you can imagine putting this on the outside of a note, don't send the note.
boo to the people who see this as manipulative. so cynical! i've written long letters in the past where i get to the end and say, "gee, there's a lot of stuff in there i probably could have gone without saying, but it's not 100% trash. there's some good stuff that needs to be said too." so you give it to the person, but you let them know that you're not 100% committed to the letter and hope that they keep that in mind when/if they read it.
it's not manipulative, it's self-critical.
if the letter was an email, it's an easy edit. if you just spent 45 min pouring your heart into a handwritten note, it's not so easy to delete the extraneous parts.
hey, at least they're honest. i know i'd always like an honest,whiny note over something that they whitewashed to make more acceptable. Then you know what they're truly thinking.
Apology accepted<blink>.</blink>