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Start of conference MAIN
Monday, 9/15/1997
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Msg #1 Gerald Lucas:
Good morning, class.
Msg #2 Kimberly Conner:
Good morning to you too.
Msg #3 Scott Holland:
Monday at 8:00am, "good?"
Msg #4 Jose Intriago:
Good Morning, Mr. Lucas
Msg #5 Markesha Ruth:
Good morning, Mr.Lucas
Msg #6 Hayoung Kim:
Good morning everyone!
How is everyone this Monday morning?
Msg #7 Stacey Smith:
msg #1 Good morning, everybody! This is Stacey.
Msg #8 Dan White:
Hello.
Msg #9 Shannon Royal:
Good morning to you also Prof. Lucas.
Msg #10 Saimir Struga:
Good morning!
Msg #11 Rosalba Singh:
Good morning, I hope you received my E-mail over the weekend.
Msg #12 Pierre Joseph:
hello everyone, gosh today is going to be a rough day....
pjoseph
Msg #13 Rachel Lamb:
Good morning, not by a long shot.
Msg #14 Richard Nylen:
Whoa, this is cool
Msg #15 Dan White:
Fascinating...
Msg #16 Mathew Zachariah:
Hello, everyone!
Did anyone get started on the Essay yet
Msg #17 Matthew Gallagher:
How are you doing today?
Msg #18 Stacey Smith:
This is really wierd to have a virtual chat room on a class
computer.
Msg #19 Elizabeth Menietti:
Liza Menietti: Good morning!
Msg #20 Scott Holland:
This sounds like a woodpecker convention.
Msg #21 Hayoung Kim:
I have used this Daedalus system before and its fun when we start
to discuss some interesting topics.
Msg #22 Stacey Smith:
Hi there, Mathew. Yes, I've started thinking about my essay.
Msg #23 Richard Nylen:
ok, what to talk about?
Msg #24 Scott Holland:
Stacy, most of the people I speak with in person seem even
weirder!
Msg #25 Shannon Royal:
I prefer wuz happening instead of goooood morning.
Msg #26 Mathew Zachariah:
Hey class, did anyone did any interesting thing over the weekend?
Msg #27 Richard Nylen:
Partied!
Msg #28 Stacey Smith:
Hey Scott, you spelled my name wrong!!!!! Stacey
Msg #29 Richard Nylen:
btw, spelling shouldn't count
Msg #30 Dan White:
I slept. That is interesting if you're tired enough.
Msg #31 Rosalba Singh:
Has anyone decided what they are going to write about for their
essay?
Msg #32 Matthew Gallagher:
I went to work and studied.
Msg #33 Hayoung Kim:
One interesting thing or rather a "systematic thing" I did over
the weekend is work.
Msg #34 Gerald Lucas:
Class, I would like to discuss the various issues in "The
Enormous Space." Anyone may begin.
Msg #35 Scott Holland:
Interesting things over the weekend? Yes, nothing I'd broadcast
over this electronic gossip column however.
Msg #36 Richard Nylen:
uh oh, an ant!
Msg #37 Pierre Joseph:
so, how was the weekend for everyone. ohh since we are so much
on movies. i saw "hhodlum" over the weekend. it was o.k.---- it
can wait till the video store.... pj
Msg #38 Dan White:
I want to write about this abandoned tourist trap in Orlando.
It is a really cool building.
Msg #39 Kimberly Conner:
I went to work and studied too. So much fun....
Msg #40 Stacey Smith:
Hey Dan, sounds pretty exciting....... Stacey
Msg #41 Rachel Lamb:
I am not good at the chat room thing
Msg #42 Richard Nylen:
well, we already touched on the fact that this man is completely
weird in his actions, so lets start with maybe the fact that he
just decided to quit his job, no pre-meditation, just quit
Msg #43 Matthew Gallagher:
Has anyone rented any good movies lately?
Msg #44 Scott Holland:
It raises the question: How does one truly have their "own" life?
Is it possible?
Msg #45 Richard Nylen:
good question scott.... this is true
Msg #46 Stacey Smith:
The guy is kind of sad... I feel sorry for him. He's thrown away
his whole life because he cracked under pressure. I wonder how
many other people things like this happen to without anyone
noticing????
Msg #47 Hayoung Kim:
I personally did not like the story due to its weird or
psychologically troubled man.
Msg #48 Richard Nylen:
I wrote about that in my journal entry.... can anyone be truely
happy?
Msg #49 Mathew Zachariah:
I have not a clue to what to write about for the essay. Can
someone give any good suggestions, Please
Msg #50 Gerald Lucas:
RE: #44: Scott, you make an interesting point. Can you elaborate?
Msg #51 Sheena Salmon:
Hello
Msg #52 Rachel Lamb:
The gumption he had to go ahead and do something so radical,
deserves some sort of admiration.
Msg #53 Rosalba Singh:
What type of characteristics would you say this man has
throughout the Enormous Space?
I don't think he was just merely insane.
Msg #54 Pierre Joseph:
enormous space was something else. i am still trying tomake the
connection between the name of the story and the events that took
place. someone tell me what you think. pj
Msg #55 Kimberly Conner:
Why didn't the narrator just order pizza rather than eat people
and animals?
Msg #56 Dan White:
I thought it was interesting that he treated the whole thing like
an experiment. It was almost like he felt that he was
sacrificing himself.
Msg #57 Stacey Smith:
Hey anybody.... do you think this could happen in "real
life"? I do.
Msg #58 Dan White:
It could definitely happen in real life...
Msg #59 Richard Nylen:
kimberly--- he decided to have no contact with the outside world
Msg #60 Gerald Lucas:
RE: #55: Does Kim have a valid point here?
Msg #61 Saimir Struga:
I think the question raised is how much can we take.
Msg #62 Elizabeth Menietti:
I thought the story was very, very strange! The main narrator is
a very sick man. I mean, eating pets, eating people, and stuffing
a woman in the freezer!
Msg #63 Markesha Ruth:
yes she does
Msg #64 Richard Nylen:
What's up with the secretary lady
Msg #65 Kimberly Conner:
Yes I realize he didn't want any contact with the outside world,
but he could have at least ordered about 20 pizzas at once.
Msg #66 Sheena Salmon:
The pilgrims had to eat cats and dogs to survive in their new
world.
Msg #67 Richard Nylen:
back to the eating thing, he didn't want to have any contact
with the "world", this is true, he could have stocked up at the
beginning, but shortly thereafter he burnt all his bank notes ($$
)
Msg #68 Rachel Lamb:
IN "real life" there are already hermits who are afraid to leave
the house, so this is just an extreme version of reality.
Msg #69 Dan White:
I would have started ordering pizzas before resorting to eating
the neighbor's pets. He was willing to allow people from the
outside in, why not the pizza man?
Msg #70 Stacey Smith:
It seems that he had too much time to premeditate this act.
Where was his family? Where were his friends? Is this supposed
to say that people with jobs of power have no true support, that
they are just shells of real people?
Msg #71 Gerald Lucas:
RE: #69: Yes, Dan. At least he could have eaten the pizza guy.
Msg #72 Mathew Zachariah:
It was little hard for me to analyse that essay. Has anyone
Msg #73 Hayoung Kim:
To have one's true life depends on himself/herself. In my
opinion you have a true life if you are happy and active in the
society you live in even if you do the same thing everyday.Even
though we do act like "ants marching", everyone of us is
different in character.
Msg #74 Saimir Struga:
I don`t think he premeditated anything.
Msg #75 Scott Holland:
Are each of us a product of our society, spoonfed from grade K -
12, only to begin to think at a college level. If true, can we
unravel our past brianwashing and find our true self?" Did
Ballentyne finally find his true self? How do you know he did or
did not?
Msg #76 Kimberly Conner:
I think the narrator was quite fond of his secretary, this is
probably why he never ate her. Even though he killed her, he was
trying to save her from the enormous space.
Msg #77 Dan White:
If he had anyone around, he probably would have never gone this
far.
Msg #78 Richard Nylen:
It was once said to me if you like your job, you will never work
another day in your life... thus implying that work might be a
labor you don't necessarily love
Msg #79 Shannon Royal:
Does anyone fully understand HTML.
Msg #80 Pierre Joseph:
referring to the question of can anyone be happy in this world.
that answer is obvious, yes people can be happy in this world.
the character in this story let two chain of events take him
over. the accident and the divorse.
Msg #81 Mathew Zachariah:
I believe that this essay was to solemn
Msg #82 Matthew Gallagher:
If he did have friends this action probably wouldn't have taken
place.
Msg #83 Saimir Struga:
HTML!*?? What is that?
Msg #84 Elizabeth Menietti:
For MSG 64:I think the secretary is the one thing from the real
world that the main character still accepts and appreciates.
Thats why he put her in the freezer instead of eating her!
Msg #85 Gerald Lucas:
Is anyone still here?
Msg #86 Saimir Struga:
Under pressure everyone of us can become weird to an extent. The
story tells us that sometimes we can go too far, so we have to
take care of our psychological health the same way as the
physical one.
Msg #87 Saimir Struga:
Anbody here?
Msg #88 Rosalba Singh:
I am
Msg #89 Rosalba Singh:
What exactly is the point of the Story?
Msg #90 Saimir Struga:
Why do you think he did not eat the secretary?
Msg #91 Rosalba Singh:
Anyone still there?
Msg #92 Rosalba Singh:
I think he did like her enough not to eat her, but not enough not
to kill her.
Msg #93 Saimir Struga:
No, because she had too much make up on and had had too much
plastic surgery.
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