I don't need you; I just can't put you down

[Wisemon]

An email transaction between me and a professor. I wrote the first one at 2:00 A.M. The professor is a 28 year old PhD student. Note how her signing address changes when she realizes that she might be being undermined.


Tonya,
> >
> > I just got to page 100 of The French Lieutenant's Woman; I think
> that I
> > have gone through enough of it to give it a fair review. I
> disagree with
> > the Cosmopolitan's "Impossible to put down" comment. I can put
> this book
> > down right now:
> >
> > For all of Fowles' talk about the charm of his characters, none
> of his
> > characters are sympathetic. None of his longwinded scenery
> descriptions are
> > all that interesting or relevant. He talks of sciences that are
> not really
> > sciences. His excessive use of dashes is an insult to writers
> who use them
> > appropriately. Every time I think this hack of an author cannot
> get more
> > pompous, he throws in another French phrase or a badly guised
> clich