Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hplabsc!labelle From: labelle@hplabsc.UUCP (WB6YZZ La Belle) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: What to do with an SO on a quilt-and other topics Message-ID: <2065@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 17:23:07 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.2065 Posted: Fri Aug 3 17:23:07 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 05:31:21 EDT Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are really interested in astronomy- go to a planetarium; per- sonally I've got better things to do on a quilt with some wine and my SO! Somehow I think you are trying to in someway hide your sexual desires and infer that intellectual meetings of the mind are somehow better or more desireable. The mental "orgasm" of intellectual pusuit or emotional melding of the minds with an SO may indeed be the "real pleasure in life" FOR YOU! But sexual pleasure also has its place in the human function. Let's not try to hide it or make it look like something else or supress it. The "real pleasure in life" is completely PERSON DEPENDANT. I may obtain my "real pleasure" in life from "that which is marketable" IT JUST MIGHT NOT APPLY TO YOU! This is what really makes people different. Different desires and pursuits. The bottom line is- "all this fuss about miss america" was not a waste for me! It was socially rewarding and intellectually stimulating because it brought out so many opinions and ideas; EVEN YOURS! GEORGE :w lovers