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from K
to Me
date Sep. 28, 2007 10:25 PM
subject Are you CHALLENGING me?!
This, Piff, I feel is bordering on insult the likes of which our relationship has not seen since the [imagined] doubt of your knowledge of the Kashmir region:
"I'm superexcited not only because I've been stalking Ethiopian culture/trivia for the better part of the past decade..."
While this statement is not a direct challenge, I would ask you to remember your place in the hierarchy of Ethiopia Lovers. And it goes like this:
1. Me
2. Everyone else (incl. you)
And nothing, Piff--not going there, not MOVING there, not MARRYING Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, Crown Prince of Ethiopia--will change that.
Word.
K
PS. Am reading Homi Bhabha's "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse", which starts with the fabulous sentence "The discourse of post-Enlightenment English colonialism often speaks in a tongue that is forked, not false. "
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K, I stand corrected and I will dutifully accept my place below you on the hierarchy of Ethiopia Lovers. In return, I would like to ask that you never, ever doubt my knowledge of the Kashmir region again.
LOL. Only my friends... ("Piff," for the uninitiated, stands for "p!g fu*ker." We keep it real.)
