I was very intrigued by our conversation about the mask in Monday's class as well. The whole idea that we could all possibly be wearing masks to hide our true identities to one another just seems rather sad and disappointing. Society just forms these restrictions of how you have to act and look or certain way which makes life just more difficult i think. Granted sometimes we choose to wear the masks and sometimes people might for their safety. I would hope that in this century we wouldn't have to think in that sense, but realistically i guess its not really a possibility. I also started to think of the Delany poem "The Mask" which was brought up. I saw it as someone observing the other individual that they might be acquainted with, but not really know. So the speaker sees this woman and doesn't really now what to think of her emotion: "Such baffled yearning in her eyes, / Such pain upon her face! / I turned aside until the mask / Was slipped once more in place." This is where i started to get confused I guess. I mean who exactly is wearing the mask? Is the speaker referring to a mask he/she is wearing or are they both wearing masks? I felt like the speaker might be trying to hide his/her emotion as well. It makes me think that they are both wearing masks. Everyone is just kind of hiding from each other.