Re: you won't believe this

["Carl W. Glover" <glover@msmary.edu>]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
	We didn't pick Hemphill, Texas, for its geographical location
alone, as is evidenced by the appended post.  I'll need to make a trip to
Hemphill right away just to check on the blue haze.
	If anyone understands the appended post, please don't explain it
to me.
					Warm regards,



					Carl W. Glover
					glover@msmary.edu


On Wed, 14 Dec 1994 cynthiah@utdallas.edu wrote:

> Brother Carl,
> 	As a sister of the nearby Hemphill, Texas clan, I want to offer my
> heartfelt congratulations on getting tenure!  Now for the hitch...I need
> advice?  I subscribe to a list (I won't name names) that has an identity
> crisis.  It seems to suffer regularly from something I call post-ego,
> pre-mirror-stage (if, as Eric suggests, someone "mirrors" this list and
> starts another one -- which will no doubt be equally subject to identity
> crises), fort/da (to delete here or there) hysteria (a condition in which
> one's discourse flows in irrational ways).  Now...the problem is that as
> a subscriber/member of this list, I suffer the symptoms of a "collective
> hysteria."  Oh Brother Carl...what can you recommend?  Should I try to
> expunge the hysteria, or my collective unconscious?  Should I hire myself
> a preacher, not unlike yourself, that can exorcize the hysteria?  BTW,
> what are your going rates? for exorcizing, that is?
> 
> Seeing double entendres,
> 
> Cynthia-dora Haynes-Burton
> University of Texas at Dallas