Shoes, (in your case, Sandals)have been part of some beautiful stories in our time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooM-RGUTe2E and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DscAVHLPL10
: ) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > Yes, this definitely goes beyond rationality. I haven't been counting, but > almost nothing she has said in this regard has been remotely rational. If we > looked at your suggestion from the rational standpoint, I don't think it's > stretching it to say that 4 years of total service at no pay (I leave out the > courses) + around 100K spent for it could honestly be traded for what I might > get for the sandals now. I, at least, wouldn't call that nothing. > But rationality aside, I think this isn't quite it, either. > I think it's more something like this: > She perceives me as an absolute total wimp and she can't bear it--something > along those lines. > That's what I was asking her to nail, whatever it really may be. > She does mention craving attention, and there is some truth to that. I've > been quite isolated for quite a long time now and some interaction/attention > is kind of nice. Also, my nearly decimated but still thrashing ego probably > gets a little juice from even having the sandals, and the false recognition > that might bring, an additional part that could help drive her up the wall > and cause her to want to attack them. > But I'm pretty positive that really isn't it for her, either. > I guess I can reveal now that I was hoping my little ironic piece would > somehow miraculously reach her in one way or another, but, as previously > surmised, I was over-reaching there, too. > I guess we'll just have to leave her with it. > Bless you, Sal, > m > > On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:09 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > > > > > So, Sal, > > > It looks like we're getting closer. > > > Can you nail precisely what it is about me that really > > > gets you the most? Because nothing you've said so far > > > is really getting it. > > > > Obviously she feels no need to explain herself to you, > > or even to address you directly. > > > > I think I had it right the other day. Her animosity > > toward you is based on resentment that someone is > > getting what she perceives to be something for > > nothing. > > > > Some part of her subconscious mind recognizes that > > resentment as irrational, so she has to come up with > > ways to portray you as a Bad Person in order to > > justify it. > > > > To do that, she has to make up her own reality. It > > doesn't correspond with the reality of your presence > > here,(*) but at least it makes some sense on its own > > terms. > > > > It isn't as if she'd never done this before here; she > > has, many times. It appears to be the way she deals > > with life, as that manifests itself on FFL, at any > > rate. > > > > *Just as a concrete example, she asks: "Mark has been > > posting here now for how many months"? Answer: One > > single month. Then a month's absence, and now another > > four days. > > > > > > > > On Sep 18, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > > > > On Sep 17, 2011, at 8:16 PM, seventhray1 wrote: > > > > > > > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > > > >> wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:03 PM, whynotnow7 wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>>> I don't know anything beyond what Mark has shared publicly. I was > > > >>>> commenting on how we really don't know anything about the potential > > > >>>> buyers of Mark's sandals, or what he will settle for. I hope he > > > >>>> makes a bundle. Why not? > > > >>> > > > >>> So you hope someone's going to get swindled? > > > >>> Sal > > > >>> > > > >> Sal, this things is really a bee in your bonnet. Would you care to > > > >> subject your purchases to scrutiny and judgement? You're riding this > > > >> one pretty hard. Must be triggering something in you. > > > > > > > > lurk, Mark has been posting here now for > > > > how many months? And has gotten how many > > > > suggestions for what he can do to get the > > > > ball rolling? (many of them very good > > > > ones). And each and every time has > > > > some (usually very dumb) excuse for why he > > > > can't do the relatively simple things involved. > > > > Now he's supposedly trying to get them into > > > > some auction house, but surprise! There's still > > > > roadblocks in the way. Not of his making, of > > > > course. They need some letters, > > > > which he's finding it difficult to obtain. That > > > > will be the next excuse offered for this particular > > > > plan's going bust. Basically he seems, as Barry > > > > might put it, addicted to attention. My guess > > > > is he has no real intention to look into selling > > > > as long as he can continue running this number > > > > here. > > > > Sal > > > > >
