[syndicate] i have been humbled...

[__lo-y.]

At 19:04 08-01-03 -0800, H Michael Haggerty wrote:
>...by an 80 yr old retired english teacher. she straightened me out on 
>this "art bullshit" when i suggested that i was going to concentrate on my 
>writing. she claims that is just so much more mental masturbation and that 
>i needed to stop speaking and get underneath the words, to the thought 
>before the word. of course, she is right.

what is wrong with mental masturbation?