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[ursula]

You have a flair for the dramatic which is most evident in the way you read Greek, in a voice too big and rolling and melodious for an ordinary seminar room. You are grand and expansive and effective on a large scale dealing with large problems. I don't think you've ever explained your private demons as a sort of claustrophobia, but maybe that's what they are: you're scaling down to ordinary niggling proprieties, much too far and much too fast.

Since our society expects stage fright to be directly proportional to the size of the audience, not inversely, you're doomed to a certain amount of misunderstanding. That should not stop you from being astonishing.

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[metaplasmus]

Thank you. This absolutely made my day.

I'm a bit curious what sort of large problems you're referring to--problems related to everyday life, or to something loftier, or...?

I don't think you've ever explained your private demons as a sort of claustrophobia, but maybe that's what they are: you're scaling down to ordinary niggling proprieties, much too far and much too fast.

I've had vague thoughts resembling this at times, but I'd never been able to put them together, and I think you're absolutely correct--this is an excellent way of looking at things.

[ursula]

Something loftier, though I wouldn't rule out an earth-shattering romance at some point.

[metaplasmus]

Excellent. (I hope I deal more effectively with the romance than I have with the last few!)

[ursula]

Unfortunately one of the hallmarks of a truly earth-shattering romance is that it makes one less effective . . .