[Reader-list] Greetings for May Day

[Aarti Sethi]

>
> I was also expecting a mail (ideally not from a male) deconstructing
> Dhatri's or whoever's suggestion that a wife should act like a prostitute in
> bed.


...Of which a certain feminist recovery/reading is possible I would suggest,
though not perhaps in the ways the authors would approve ;)


> Ask for money after the act?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aarti Sethi" <aarti.sethi at gmail.com>
> To: "Sarai Reader List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:41 PM
> Subject: [Reader-list] Greetings for May Day
>
>
>  its breton's "soluble fish" actually (for those who were
> > wondering)...when
> > confronted with which strained at the seams of my, admittedly limited,
> > capacities, I thought it best to call in the experts...
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Tapas Ray <tapasrayx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Well done! I am looking at the spot where our earth mother's (Dhatri's)
> > > bubbling, gargling, many-splendoured stream of consciousness is
> > > bravely
> > > challenged by Aarti's. I see a whirlpool where the twain meet, and my
> > > head
> > > spins as if my brain is in an erratic washing machine.
> > >
> > > Tapas
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Aarti Sethi wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dear Dhatri,
> > > >
> > > > The ground beneath my feet is nothing but an enormous unfolded
> > > > newspaper.
> > > > Sometimes a photograph comes by; it is a nondescript curiosity, and
> > > > from
> > > > the
> > > > flowers there unifomly rises the smell, the good smell, of printer's
> > > > ink. I
> > > >
> > >
> > >  On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, we wi <dhatr1i at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  Dear Radhikarajen and the rest,
> > > > >
> > > > >  "DHATRI"  by choosing this pen name, my exact intention is to > >
> > > express
> > > > > the
> > > > > EARTH characteristics and feelings for which you quoted "Kshamaya
> > > > > Dharithri"(dhatri means the earth and its primary characteristic
> > > is
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
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