The poet's impulse to seek sanctuary in isolation, and the militant's to seek justice through intervention, should, she suggests, feel familiar to us in 2008.
The quieter rural life those people seek should, she suggested, be enhanced by modernity (Aguaviva, for instance, has no broadband Internet access).
They should, she suggests, contact scientific review officers in their areas of interest to volunteer.
But it should not, she suggests, be an insuperable one.
What parents of teens should do, she suggests, is look inward next time they plan to approach their teenagers.
They should, she strongly suggested, rent a large passenger van and maneuver around the awards circuit together.
When a patient tells her about a personal goal or priority, she'll ask, "To what extent do you think you're achieving that now?" and "If that need is not being met now, what are the barriers?" She is trying to uncover "mismatches" between a person's goals and present reality, Saliba explains, to figure out what kind of intervention she should suggest.
Party planners, she suggested, should never be over 25, on paper anyway.
"Maybe we should just repaint it," she suggests to Cole in a tormented voice.
"Maybe I should switch to pathology," she suggests, "where the cadavers don't care about small talk".
All the (male, British) readers who had emailed her to protest at his sexual dysfunction, she suggested, should sort themselves out.
