Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:16:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Marsha Faizi <mfaizi-AT-rbnet.com>
Subject: Re: "Language is a virus"


At 02:11 PM 2/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Doctors,
> My immune system is still under attack by foreign agents. Woke up
>every two hours in a sweat last night but feeling better today and
>looking forward to the opening once again of my passages to rhizomatic
>weaving communications.
>
>convalescing,
>Ariosto Raggo

I was not going to say this because it is silly, of course.

I went to bed fairly early last night but I woke about three a.m. because my
throat and my chest were burning. I started to cough in such a way that I
thought, "Well, you have never had the bronchitis before but this could be it."

I very seldom become sick at all. I am exposed to so many germs that my body
can easily repel them. I don't believe in getting sick. I got enough
problems, already.

But I went back to sleep at six a.m. and slept until nine and I am just fine
now.

None of this is significant except that it does make you wonder if language
is a carrier of virus.

Maybe that old quack, Benway, was right for once in his quack career. 

Faizi