I am born of a race of eastern european bohemian anti-soviet diffidents. And we've had episodes of puniitive paranoia-inducing aggression toward our own citizens in this country, too (see eugenics, around 1920s'; it's popularity as a movement at harvard). <br>
<br>My inflammatory rhetoric is how I communicate; jousting discourse is not meant personally, merely as a legalistic search for precedents and counterexamples. Not that I am a lawyer yet, so no doubt I do it poorly, but I doubt I was making false analagoies and irrational leaps. I can write you personally on the more subtle points of comparisoni between anything in present situation and those I compared it to at length, if you length if you like, onc eI'm done job-hunting. That you are distiurbed by my feeling of a need, as you put it, doesn't relaly affect me or any of us. If I sat down and told you my family history and involvement in the massacres of Siberia and how my grandfather won vice-presidentship of a free lithuania from the totalitarian soviets perhaps your jaw would drop too. All I know is: my parents warned me that it's the little freedoms that get taken away first, and the internal guilt that builds uipw tihout being spoken of. I have yet to see someone cite a medical study on second-hand smoke to convince me (I mean full-scale, pubmed-available, medical study) and in meantime I have no compunctions about smoking on the curb right in front of my house with my assorted medley of friends. Alan Brandt's <i>The Cigarette Century</i> as well as a number of other authoritative historical books on drug prohibition remain in my apartment for the borrowing, should someone wish to actually talk about hte issue on a level interesting. <br>
<br>Lastly: "Nevertheless, as a fellow-resident of our building, I do urge you
abandon your inflammatory rhetoric, even when couched in apologies, and
simply defer to the wishes of the building's great majority of owners." hang on! I'm not violationg my lease, not at present. so: fuck no! why would I?<br><br>love,<br>-ona k.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Martin Marks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmmarks@mit.edu">mmmarks@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Dear Ona,<div><br></div><div>I have not met you and am sorry for that. Also, I appreciate your queries about musical noise.</div><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, as a fellow-resident of our building, I do urge you abandon your inflammatory rhetoric, even when couched in apologies, and simply defer to the wishes of the building's great majority of owners. All we were talking about was smoking in the hallways and immediately outside!</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am particularly disturbed that you felt the need to compare the current views of smoking, scientific and otherwise, toward one of the most horrific chapters in twentieth-century history, to which few things, if any, can be truly comparable. This is how reasoned disagreements are quickly perverted into nonsensical flames—by false analogies and irrational leaps. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Like Alex, I will refrain from further emails on any aspect of this matter.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,<br><div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div>
<i>mmm</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Martin M. Marks</div><div>Senior Lecturer</div><div>MIT, Music and Theater Arts Section, 10-268</div><div>77 Massachusetts Ave.</div><div>Cambridge MA, 02139</div><div><br></div>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Ona Kondrotas wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Alex,<br>I'm glad it was offensive; that was what it was intended to be though I think I shouldn't have been aiming for that and got carried away. I apologize for getting so fiercely into battble. But by the way, nothing in the pharmacokinetics of nicotine and tar when burned, inhaled, and then exhaled by various capacities of human lungs in areas of various ventilation is 'obvious'. least the cumulative contribution of such air quality to carcinogencity in idiosyncratically predispoxsed individuals. I can lend you several elucidating books on this subject -- most published by harvard press in last few years, thus reliable -- should you be interested. don't make asinine remarks regarding topics not in your own area of specialty. it was pretty obvious to the nazis that the jews were inferior, too. then think on eugenics. much like the current war on our bloodstreams and consumables: grounded in 'facts' but largely a political venture. <br>
<br>let's all just try to be decent to one another. <br>once again, let me know if my music gets too loud; i suspect i play it louder than anyone else in the house.<br><br>-ona k.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Alex Ramos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexisramos@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexisramos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Wow; that was really offensive.<div><br></div><div>I think it's pretty obvious that any kind of second-hand smoke is detrimental to one's health. This isn't an exhaustive study but here's some primary literature showing that outdoor secondhand smoke decreases health in children (Figure 2 specifically).</div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">-Alex</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Ona Kondrotas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ona.faster.k@gmail.com" target="_blank">ona.faster.k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dear rdhayman,<br>I am flabbergasted that you even know the word 'balderdash' whilst misspelling 'stoopid' (correctly spelled 'stupid')(. And sir: I don't ask stupid questions; I merely encounter stupidity and banal people or, perhaps, fascist population groups. Thus it was<br>
<br>Speaking of, I would challenge anyone to show me a conclusive, exhausative study indicating that outdoor second-hand smoke is in any way harmful to you. Whether it is 'offensive' or not is irrelevant.<br><br>
you all sound like fags, and I don't mAean like the gay friends of mine who insist on smoking on the roof. at least they're not, say, evegetarians or nine-to-fivers. <br> <br>love to all,<br>-ona k.<div><div></div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdhayman@aim.com" target="_blank">rdhayman@aim.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<font color="navy" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Yo<font color="navy" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">u don't sound bitchy. I mean, for fuck's sake, "can we smoke on the roof?" Balderdash! What a stoopid question. Who gives a shit if most of ur friends smoke. Gimme a break. <div>
<div></div><div><div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Candy Malina <<a href="mailto:candyjoy@earthlink.net" target="_blank">candyjoy@earthlink.net</a>><br> To: lindengardens <<a href="mailto:lindengardens@mit.edu" target="_blank">lindengardens@mit.edu</a>><br>
Sent: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 10:50 am<br> Subject: Re: [Lindengardens] Two new policies<br> <br> <div> <div>No one should be walking on the roof; it is not good for the surface of it, and will mean that we have to replace the roof sooner, which is a big expense.</div>
<div> </div> <div>Common areas would be the hallways and foyer (and laundry and storage rooms), the parking lot and the front yard up to the sidewalk, which I imagine is the line of our property. Your unit is your private area; people can smoke in there. </div>
<div> </div> <div>(I am not writing as the "official" word...but I do know that the roof is supposed to be off limits, and as an owner, I am invested in its lasting as long as it can. And I am personally very bothered by smoke coming into my unit through the windows, or having to walk through cigarette smoke in the hallways.)</div>
<div> </div> <div>Thanks for your cooperation!</div> <div> </div> <div>Candy <br> <br> <br> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message----- <br>
From: Ona Kondrotas <br> Sent: Jun 9, 2010 9:54 AM <br> To: <a href="mailto:lindengardens@mit.edu" target="_blank">lindengardens@mit.edu</a> <br> Subject: Re: [Lindengardens] Two new policies <br> <br> Is the roof a common area?<br>
Where do the delinations of the outdoor common areas end? All my friends smoke.<br> Yours,<br> -ona k.<br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Charlie Denison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdenison@comcast.net" target="_blank">cdenison@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Hello Linden Gate owners and tenants,<br> <br> As a result of yesterday's Condo Association Annual Meeting, we now have<br>
two new policies regarding common areas:<br> <br> 1. Grilling is no longer allowed in the outdoor common areas, except<br> with the permission of the Board of Trustees<br> 2. Smoking is not allowed in the outdoor or indoor common areas<br>
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