Re: Force-feeding

[Jon Drukman <jondr@sco.COM>]

No one yet knows why graham@UG.CS.DAL.CA (Michael Graham) said:
>In article <1991Jun7.184618.18148@cbnews.cb.att.com> nrc@cbema.att.COM (Neal R Caldwell, Ii) writes:
>>What is a Kate neophyte
>>supposed to think when he asks a question and all he sees in response 
>>is Happy chatter?      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!

OK, Michael, consider the point made!

>Will someone please tell me what:
>
> "be running up that road
>  be running up that hill
>  be running up that building"
>
>means?

This isn't a definitive reading, by any stretch, but applying my tired and
bruised English-major muscles to the text at hand, I am forced to conclude
that it can only refer to the relative ease with which once difficult tasks
can now be accomplished if the Deal With God was actually to take place.

IN OTHER WORDS... If I only could, I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get
him to swap our places, and then those things that seemed impossible, like
running up a building, will now be easy.

We know of the female character's emotional strength ("do you want to know
that it doesn't hurt me" and "see how deep the bullet lies"), so presumably
she wants to draw physical strength from the masculine, or maybe it's just
a nifty way of saying "hard things will seem easy."

How's that for a start?

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Jon Drukman (down by law)                    uunet!sco!jondr      jondr@sco.com
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