Two Fathers
July 22, 2006
I just wrote a devilish sentence for Belief #5. Wonder if they’ll let me keep it or “correct” it in editing:
The e-mail that a student sends her fathers saying that her favorite band is coming to town is different from the text message that student sends to her best friends about the concert. The general information in the messages may be the same, but the language and specific details of the two pieces of writing will probably be quite different.
I couldn’t help it. I had “father” and then I decided that maybe that was stereotyped (asking the patriarch), so I started to change it to “mother” and I got the inspiration for the current version. I bet I get sent to the woodshed.