Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!fbr From: fbr@utastro.UUCP (Frank Ray) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: romantic stuff Message-ID: <311@utastro.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 09:45:01 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.311 Posted: Thu Aug 2 09:45:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 03:37:03 EDT Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 20 For an experience with your {date,lover,SO,...} try watching some meteor showers. Go out where there's a dark sky, take a quilt, a little wine, not too much if you're driving. We are passing through comet tails now. Happens every summer. It's neat, go see it. You can read more about it in net.astro, in Stardate. While you're there, looking out at the cosmos, trying to imagine which direction the earth is heading relative to what you're seeing, see if you don't agree that there are human pursuits that cannot be bought and sold, that cannot be prostituted, or objectified. There is a feeling of transcendance in certain acts, in various works of art and science. The real pleasure in life lies here, not in that which is marketable. There's a movie line from "An Unmarried Woman," "There's love and there's art,...", spoken by an artist, naturally, leaving science out entirely, but the line is about transcendance. His instinct was sound. All this fuss about Miss America... What a total waste of time.