Louis how do you feel getting all this attention about something like a cop in the park? I don't like authority figures. Cops bring out the desire to be on the other side of the planet in me. But I always feel if someone shows some interest in me in an honest straightforward way that it is worth reciprocating. In that sense...
Louis: "What I concealed from her was my Marxist concept of the role of the cops in the bourgeois society. When I was studying Trotskyist politics in the late '60s, one of the things that was drummed into our heads was that cops were not part of the working class even if they were in trade unions, worked for a wage and occasionally struck."
Doyle What a funny concept. You concealed this from someone that you saw for about a minute. Actually what I think is that she gave you a frisson. And you thought that your Marxism would certainly have made a mess of this possible romance. Me and and this beautiful babe hmmmmm...and if I told her then it would spoil a beautiful thing. I think sex is about tension. That tension is that someone is going to like you enough to want you to be closer physically than even your best friends. The excitement of being vulnerable to someone who could reject you for personal reasons, and that would hurt like the devil emotionally. Your instant reaction to the tension was to close up like a clam to her. In other words she scared you with her interest in you, and only later did these questions arise to trouble you. And then you ask the whole world what they think.
Doyle A second thing I think is you have this odd idea that class rubs off in just conversing or seeing if someone could connect with you. What would more likely happen is that your values would alter if you were ready to "collaborate", and if they weren't you would find out hanging with this woman either succeeded according to your values, or it didn't and you moved on.
Doyle The point I am making is that you have this feeling that a woman can have a mysterious power over you in the sexual arena. What is that all about. Why could one's class position be so shaky when a young beautiful woman appears? Why are they powerful? And the threat from an older woman cop? What is her threat of class collaboration? Or an old retired woman cop? Does her allure and sexual being disappear?
Louis: "And when I say beautiful, I mean movie star beautiful."
Doyle There are circumstances where I could see someone hanging with the cops as giving me pause. The climate of cold war suspicion for one. I take seriously those problems, and the questions I ask are personal and difficult to answer. But then you made this public. What are your answers? What do you think... are you crossing class lines to get some woman's phone number?
Doyle By the way (btw) isn't LBO getting a reputation for covering a lot of economic territory?
regards, Doyle Saylor