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- From: ajc1@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Andrew Cooke)
- Subject: Re: logic confounding people unclear on the concept
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- References: <1993Jan19.190756.2489@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1jjsb2INN603@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan20.200049.17654@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1jmf3lINNch6@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:35:55 GMT
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- In article <1jmf3lINNch6@shelley.u.washington.edu>,
- paleblue@byron.u.washington.edu (Hermes) writes:
-
- Oh yeah I'm into that individualism thing, but I just thought that if
- I became a man I could find out once and for all if there IS a
- difference, just in case there is one. Could we maybe take a vote or
- something?
-
- there are some differences...
-
- ... mellowed by deep draughts of nectar, he indulged in idle banter
- with Juno, who shared his leisure, and teased her saying: 'Of course,
- you women get far more pleasure out of love than men do.' Juno denied
- that this was true. They decided to ask the opinion of the wise
- Tiresias, for he had experienced love both as a man and a woman.
-
- Once, when two huge serpents were intertwining themselves in the
- depths of the green wood, he had struck them with his staff; from
- being a man he was miraculously changed into a woman, and had lived as
- such for seven years. In the eighth year he saw the same serpents
- again and said: 'If there is such potent magic in the act of striking
- you that it changes the striker to the opposite sex, I shall now
- strike you again.' So, by striking the same snakes, he was restored
- to his former shape, and the nature with which he was born returned.
-
- He, then was chosen to give his verdict in this playful argument,
- and he confirmed what Jupiter had said. Then, they say, Juno was more
- indignant than she had any right to be...
-
- from metamorphoses, ovid, tran. mary innes.
-
- (and tiresias was horribly punished).
-
- andrew cooke
-
-
- institute of astronomy, oh no no no it was too cold always
- madingley road, cambridge (still the dead one lay moaning)
- cb3 0ha, england. i was much too far out all my life
- (0223) 337504/48 and not waving but drowning
-