{"id":564,"date":"2011-09-22T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=564"},"modified":"2011-09-22T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:41:44","slug":"the-chattering-of-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"The Chattering of Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of Sussmans out there, and every month I get emails addressed to &#8216;sussman@gmail.com&#8217; but clearly meant for a different one.  I always politely reply with &#8220;you&#8217;ve got the wrong email address&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That said, when I search Gmail for such replies, it makes it easy for me to see every wrongly-addressed mail I&#8217;ve ever received.  The email contents &mdash; coupled with the complete lack of context &mdash; provide a surreal look on the chatter that goes on between humans.   In the spirit of textual surrealism, I picked out individual statements from these emails and composed them into a poem.<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nI've been thinking about you.  How are you?  Everything ok?<\/p>\n<p>A partial lifetime has passed since we last said hello. Why does it<br \/>\nfeel like only a few hours ago that I was struck by your beauty and<br \/>\nwarmth? <\/p>\n<p>My heart is so of joy full I can hardly stop crying, singing and<br \/>\ndancing...<\/p>\n<p>I have come to several dances in Cambridge. It's a wonderful<br \/>\nexperience and I am grateful.<\/p>\n<p>But it is tiring to carry so many who will not produce themselves and<br \/>\nthen struggle in my own life too.<\/p>\n<p>My intent and prayer in this spiritual autobiography has been to<br \/>\nconvey something of the magic, richness, and blessing of the journey.<\/p>\n<p>I LEFT YOU SEVERAL PHONE CALLS AND DID NOT HEAR FROM YOU<\/p>\n<p>Your fabulous face and style....and your quite unique and adorable<br \/>\npersonality.<\/p>\n<p>I am very proud of you.  Your career choice and you are perfect<br \/>\ntogether.<\/p>\n<p>May I please have the honor of adding your personally signed, dated,<br \/>\nand inscribed picture to add to my collection? <\/p>\n<p>How to get paid to hike, ski, climb since it only meets two nights,<br \/>\nand what type of wages were you expecting?<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to sit at the front desk for two hours on December 5<br \/>\nfrom 10-12 noon?<\/p>\n<p>Can you please help with the flooding at the Blue Room?<\/p>\n<p>I would have to wait a few days before picking up the racket again,<br \/>\nfor I just twisted my wrist today.<\/p>\n<p>I am very disappointed that I will not get to take the course with you<br \/>\nand Vicky.<\/p>\n<p>DO NOT let anyone operate on you anymore because more spinal fusions<br \/>\nwill most likely not give enough relief to risk the possible<br \/>\ncomplications of more procedures.<\/p>\n<p>I will look for the tray and the ergonomics person--hopefully things<br \/>\nwill get better.<\/p>\n<p>Please find the proposed delegation from us.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to cut down on costs and make the trip a 3 nights\/4 day trip.<\/p>\n<p>They must be directly tied to the FEMA contract and or company performing the work.<\/p>\n<p>During school hours calls cannot go to classrooms.  Messages will be<br \/>\ntaken and given to teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The executive chef is flexible in accommodating different dietary<br \/>\nneeds and requests.<\/p>\n<p>When should Susana begin to prepare on her own and begin one of the<br \/>\nprograms you offer?<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to speak with someone above Jason because she feels you are<br \/>\ndoing something fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>We will however have recording equipment there and will record the<br \/>\nevent.<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of Sussmans out there, and every month I get emails addressed to &#8216;sussman@gmail.com&#8217; but clearly meant for a different one. I always politely reply with &#8220;you&#8217;ve got the wrong email address&#8221;. That said, when I search Gmail for such replies, it makes it easy for me to see every wrongly-addressed mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}