Dear Mr. Read:
Your delightful (and informative) misreading of "Melitta" is a
wonderful example of the way the reader's context transforms
Text. It almost makes me wannabe a postmodernist. Thanks!
==Dan P
At 08:54 AM 10/12/98 +0800, you wrote:
>I'm thankful for the full poetic explanation. I was troubled that Melitta
>might have been a reference to Melitta Schmideberg, daughter oppositional
>to Melanie Klein (emigre to USA where she, the daughter, abandoned psy-a),
>revealing fissures in the mesh of published psychoanalytic writings as they
>seep back into biographies for broader consumption. Glad to find I was
>associating too much.
>
>Thankful also for Arwin's caveat that the 'only real
>difference should be that a psychiatrist is qualified to prescribe
>medicine, basically being a doctor, and a psychotherapist limits himself
>[sic] to
>alteration of thinking and behavioural patterns', though I think the
>historical and contemporary range of differences within and between both
>professions might be immeasurably more complex - as also, following Daniel
>Pearlmen (and Edward Said?), the exchanges between amateurs and
>professionals in numerous fields.
>
>Richard Read
>
>
>>Melitta filters? Like a Mr Coffee without the plastic overwrap--You put
>>the plastic filter holder on top of the coffee cup, place paper or
>>gold-mesh filter in the v-shaped filter holder, loaded with coffee. Pour
>>bubbly hot water into the holder, and that water seeps through the coffee,
>>seeps through the porous filter, and settles into a glistening coffee pool
>>at the bottom of the cup. Quite beautiful, really--especially in the right
>>quiet and light. It also involves the consumer in the process, like hand
>>rolled cigarettes, thereby ritualizing the event and making it sublime.
>
>
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