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...unearthly glow of the monitor screens, they are oblivious to the furious click-clack of the keyboard as Internet connects them to their faraway, spiritual halves. Yet somehow, this mode of communication seems to lack a true personal touch, a romantic passion. Perhaps it is the constant, invasive hum of the terminals and the harsh florescent lights. Or the horde of computer hacker sitting in the other seats. In any case, Eliot House Drama Society's production of Love Letters attempts to retrieve that missing element. Its response to the modern malaise is the resurrection of a lost...
...Hum...I wonder if Theta would let me rush...
...Maybe the "pirate" and the "prude" are the only options we have--maybe you either run from yourself, or "self" yourself, and what would you do about love and sex if that turned out to be true? Pirate Prude is a pop record--a genuine pop record; you can hum everything on it without half trying--to which sophisticated theory-talk, about commodification and artifice and femininity and poetics, wouldn't seem at all an inappropriate reaction. Nor would tears...
...listen long enough you can hear a low whir, the steady hum of hundreds of continuously spinning machines. It emerges from underground, from tiny over-bright rooms tucked away in basements and steam tunnels where piles of abandoned clothing litter the floor like casualties...
...roommates suck. I keep a stash of quarters which I use for my laundry, and dammit, they swipe then and use them for "Quarters"! Instead of the soothing hum of the Maytag washing machine, I am forced to listen to the drunken strains of "Down in one, down in one, down in one..." This is more than just simple thievery. It is a matter of social stigmatization. For not only am I a floater, I am a floater with stinky socks, Help me. Miffed and Malodorous in Mather...