Correspondence

 

 

 

Marianne Rodriguez Petit, apart from being an interactive multi-media artist and educator, is a wonderful person.

I can say this because, I sent her an e-mail (thinking, of course, that she would never dare to e-mail me back)

and she gave me a very nice response.

I am very proud that I have, even if it is just through a computer, spoken to her.

Here I show you the correspondence:

 

On Dec 10, 2008, at 9:39 PM, anllori@alumni.uv.es wrote:
 
> 
> 
> Dear Marianne,
> 
> I´m Angela Llorca, a student of English filology at Valencia´s
> University.
> 
> I´ve been working during a month trying to develope a very complete
> essay about your hypertext "The Grimm Tale".
> 
> I chosed to work on this hypertext, between a large list of other
> hypertexts from other authors, because I found it very interesting.
> 
> I have to admit that I´m fascinated about fairy tales! They have,
> amazingly, arrived to us by word of mouth and generation after
> generation, surviving to the disappearance of Empires, to wars and
> revolutions, to the extinction and birth of new languages (even the
> languages in which they were first told).
> 
> Now, when the progress seems unstoppable, when newspapers are about to
> die out, books have its days counted, and the DVD is a relic from the
> past, we found ourselves in that traditional stories can be adapted
> perfectly to the hypertext format, like in its day they were adapted
> to the theatre of puppets, and to the magic of the cinema.
> 
> I´m convinced that traditional stories are full of charming and
> magical places. These places are full of meaning to us, and reaffirm
> our desire to belong to a community that is dear to us. Somehow, to
> convey these stories, we are trying to preserve our popular imaginary,
> in other words, our roots, and we can affirm, without the fear of
> getting it wrong, that the people who loses their roots also loses its
> identity.
> 
> Marianne, I´m sorry If I´m not expressing myself correctly, but i´m
> only in my second year and let me tell you that my English isn´t as
> good as I would like.
> 
> Anyway, I have to present my work tomorrow and I´ve been mad trying to
> find information about you, but I hardly found anithing.
> 
> At least I found your e-mail, and I know I could have done it before,
> but time is runnig by, and I would really appreciate if you could send
> me some information about you.
> 
> I will also appreciate that you take a look to my personal work, you
> can see it in: http://mural.uv.es/anllori/secondpaper
> 
> If you aren´t able to do it, because you are very busy, or whatever
> the reason is, I will perfectly understand it.
> 
> Thanks a lot for you attention,
> Angela
> 
> p.d: Even if you aren´t able to send me a reply before tomorrow, it
> doesn´t matter, I don´t care about the paper, but I´m interested in
> you and it will be nice to follow all your works. Thanks again!
> 

 

 

A few hours latter I received this:

 

 

Assumpte:

Re: Angela Llorca

Per a:

anllori@alumni.uv.es

De:

"Marianne R. Petit" <marianne.petit@nyu.edu>

Data:

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:01:08 -0500

 

Hi Angela.

What a lovely email.

Thank you so much!

I'm flattered.

My website is http://www.mariannepetit.com

and I am just launching another project at:

http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/recollecting/

I also co-run this arts organization: http://www.greylockarts.net

Best of luck with your paper!

Marianne

 

 

As I couldn’t get still when my eyes read this, I tried, once again, to speak with her

(even if it sounds silly, I needed her date of birth, and I could not find it anywhere!)

Well, yes! I admit it. It was just a bad excuse.

 

 

On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:29 PM, anllori@alumni.uv.es wrote:
 
> 
> 
> Marianne!!
> Thanks a lot for your reply :)
> I will look to those webpages now and I will definitely include them in
> my work!!
> One last little thing, and I won’t bother you any more (don’t you
> worry, hehe!)
> When where you born? I mean, in what year?
> Belive me! Its none of my business to know your age, but my university
> teacher, Vicente Fores, is mad about all you hypertext writers, and he
> is, definitely, transmitting his passion to us. As I wanted to tell you,
> he is very perfecionist with those little details.
> So it will be very nice of you, if you could reply (again).
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Regards,
> ANGELA

 

 

Marianne, replies to me, once again (and I hope not the last time!)

I would like to keep in touch with her, and, definitely, follow all her works.

 

 

 

Assumpte:

Re: Angela Llorca

Per a:

anllori@alumni.uv.es

De:

"Marianne R. Petit" <marianne.petit@nyu.edu>

Data:

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:49:14 -0500

 

 

Hi Angela.

I was born in 1964.

Good luck with your presentation!

Marianne