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- From: kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker)
- Subject: Re: what is sex (was Re: Daoism, Pooh, and Bisexuals)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.114803.4041@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <C17ID0.An2@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.183116.26693@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <C1GLGB.K6H@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:48:03 GMT
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- In article <C1GLGB.K6H@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- >Quoting kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) in article <1993Jan25.183116.26693@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>:
- >>In article <C17ID0.An2@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- >>[on defining 'sex']
- >>>Kay could probably answer this better than me, I know.
- >>O this is tricky. I'm probably the worst person in the world to attempt
- >>to answer this.
- >
- >This was exactly the answer I was trying to say, that it gets impossible
- >to know when to call it sex.
-
- Yes. Yesyesyes. It's heuristic, not algorithmic.
-
- >>You wonder stuff like this and your brain melts.
- >>
- >> Between the motion and the act
- >> Falls the Shadow.
- >
- >Wonder stuff?
-
- No, not The Wonder Stuff, it's T S Eliot, talking about how introspection
- decouples simple desire from the world. I think.
-
- >"Oh, say it's not true, the things they said we do,
- >Oh, how can I explain the pleasure in the pain?"
- >
- >(Don't Let Me Down, Gently --- Hup --- The Wonder Stuff)
-
- You're right. That too.
-
- Kay (musing)
- --
- the Crisco Kid: quiet, shy, mono, Armani-suited. Not. idx009@uk.ac.cov.cck
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