[5050] in Central_America
New quotes for Fri Aug 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Fri Aug 6 07:32:08 1993
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 07:31:17 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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ciamac (Ciamac Cyrus Moallemi):
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
. . . . When first aboard the ship, in those long hours of fever and
despair, he had been distracted, sometimes pleased and sometimes irritated,
by a grossly simple sensation: the softness of the bed. Though only a
bunk, its mattress gave the under his weight with caressing suppleness.
It yielded to him, yielded so insistently that he was, still, always
conscious of it while falling asleep. Both the pleasure and the
irritation it produced in him were decidedly erotic. There was also the
hot-air-nozzle-towel device: the same kind of effect. A tickling. And
the design of the furniture in the officers' lounge, the smooth plastic
curves into which the stubborn wood and steel had been forced, the
smoothness and delicacy of surfaces and textures: were these not also
faintly, pervasively erotic? He knew himself well enough to be sure
that a few days without Takver, even under great stress, should not get
him so worked up that he felt a woman in every table top. Not unless the
woman was really there.
Were the Urrasti cabinetmakers all celibate?
. . . . .
. . . . ``A body profiteer,'' Takver called women who used their
sexuality as a weapon in a power struggle with men. To look at her, Vea
was the body profiteer to end them all. Shoes, clothes, cosmetics,
jewels, gestures, everything about her asserted provocation. She was so
elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to
be a human being. She incarnated all the sexuality the Ioti repressed
into their dreams, their novels and poetry, their endless paintings of
female nudes, their music, their architecture with its curves and domes,
their candies, their baths, their mattresses. She was the woman in the
table.
-- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin
``You know you're a lost cause when you get to the point where you think
the curves in math are better than the curves on women.''
-- Mr. Smith, my high school math teacher
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hch (Hernando Cortina):
What's the MATTER Sid?.. Is your BEVERAGE unsatisfactory?
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nosaj (Jason M Sachs):
It turned out that nasty look was always on his face and he was just
returning from a game hunt, which was why he was carrying the shotgun.
Harry (I was surprised that his name {\em was} Harry, actually. I
mean, you know Mrs. \G's thing with names.) owns a huge plot of land
in southern Delaware, and he's got about five thousand
partially-working televisions scattered around outdoors and hooked up
so that at random intervals, George Bush appears on one of them for
about thirty seconds.
``I been hittin' about 80\% on ol' Georgie. It takes me a bit longer
to figger out where Billy Bob's comin' from, 'n' I like to wait 'n'
catch ol' Ross when he's in the middle of sayin' som'n stupid, so I
don't do too well on them two. You can't just shoot away at 'em,
either, 'cause it might be Ronnie Reagan and you gotta make sure you
don't kill none of him.''
-- from ``Seems to Me''
which I'm about 80% done writing.
(the above has no relation to the
plot, whatsoever.)
(well, not really.)
I'll be gone this weekend until Tuesday, visiting my grandparents in
St. Louis and maybe I'll even go swimming.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Peacekeeper
A man in Morgantown, West Virginia, admitted that he had taken almost
1,900 college texts worth more than $60,000 from eight area libraries.
He said that the books contained information that could be used to
design nuclear weapons, and he wanted to keep them from falling into
the wrong hands.
from No Comment
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tlouie (Tom Louie):
My current address:
Tom Louie
500 Memorial Dr. #423
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-225-8823
My Fall '93 address:
500 Memorial Dr. #216
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-225-8716
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