WHERE’S EMILY POST IN THIS, THE POST-POST ERA? — by Steve Nadis
A friend sent an email the other day asking me what I’d been up to. I gave her a call, as it had been a long time since we’d talked, and she evinced surprise: “Wow, you’re answering an email with a phone call!” Which made me wonder: What is the protocol here? Had I unwittingly broken some unwritten rule?
I asked my friend about it–the one whose response had got me thinking about this stuff for the first time–and she confessed that she didn’t know either. “I guess that if you answered a phone call with an email, that might be considered kind of a snub,” she said. “But answering an email with a phone call? Well frankly I’m flattered.”
For now, or until I hear otherwise, I guess that’s where I’m gonna leave it.
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04:43:53
Post-post–now I get it. In fact, there was a school of poets in post-war England called the post-posts (they came after the poets who came after the moderns like Auden and Eliot), so that’s what I thought of first. I wish I could use the term to characterize myself (being post-postmodern), but obviously it wouldn’t be original. It’s so hard to find new names for new movements these days. It seems they have all been used.
Well, I’ve gotten completely away from your topic and started my own entry. I’ll have to continue it in a blog of my own! Thanks, Snake, for you inspiration…
Glad to oblige GM, even if I was just an unwitting facilitator.
–S