Date: Fri, 22 May 98 16:55:32 EDT From: Sarah Khan <sfatima-AT-clam.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: Fw: the perfect person > Ah, work is over for the day and so, the perfect opportunity to respond. > Sarah, I like your posts. Their honesty is refreshing and fun to respond > to. (Have you noticed that this group has gotten more active, and stayed > that way, since your first post?) Thanks - but no I didn't notice that- that's cool! I did notice people's email to each other weren't stilted and Soren writes the most and people spell his name wrong. > Being asked to design the perfect person is like being given a slab of good > marble: you can make a lot of beautiful figures if you know how. I'm sure > the first thing that occurred to many, on reading your post, was that a > conception of the "perfect" person is, and should be, entirely subjective > and relative; perfect for whom, and for what? I meant the perfect person like- in a book I read called the book of the courtier the Castiglione guy made up the perfect courtier, woman and prince and they were funny and I think the Machiavelli dude made a perfect prince. I wanted to know what the perfect person people would construct today would be. > The perfect man, described already by Nietzsche (you should read him): Wait weren't Nietzsche's perfect people the Ubermensch supermen guys. Didn't they end up becoming Nazis? > incessantly seeking, curious, skeptical, probing; he who walks alone along > the large earth, but filled with the pleasure of existence, imbued with a > certain glow, an ebullience, an enthusiasm; who is independent, not > clinging and desperate; one whose solitude could use some protection; and, > who often gives out, or seems to, more energy than he takes in: a lover . . > . of all things that have real LIFE to them; able to love so much the > better because he doesn't require love; altogether lacking in > sentimentality, but not in sentiment; who has a certain edge to his living, > able to create that measure of Risk so important to heightening the senses; > who will take you on his journey; who rests in your complementary nature: > who makes you feel, you perfect woman, like the perfect woman you are. The > perfect man is one who is able to Live and Love. > > And who would the perfect woman be, then, but she who would respond, and in > kind, to all of this? I liked the perfect man you put down here very much- I think the perfect girl should be just like that. Except she doesn't need a partner to be perfect and if the perfect man's risk taking means he has to know how to manage weaponry the perfect girl doesn't have to. There's a perfect library in French. It means having literature and ideas from all of humanity's ideas so far. I like that too but I also know that can fry your brain. Thanks Doug. Bye
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