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From: "Paul Murphy" <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: adipose equivalences
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:39:59 +0200


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  From: Scribe1865-AT-aol.com
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  Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:56 AM
  Subject: adipose equivalences


  In a message dated 7-10-2002 12:22:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, villanova-AT-btopenworld.com writes:



    USA = one of the leading scientific, technological, intellectual, and
    economic centers of liberal democracy

    but also a place where a lot of fat people live


  Ha-ha!

  America, in gross general terms, seems to confine her fat people to suburbs and to Midwestern towns surrounded by cornfields. There are lots of understimulated people in the sticks who only talk about TV and food. They are kept in such locations so they do not embarrass the country to overseas visitors.

  Here in Manhattan, it is a felony to be five pounds overweight, and it is a great walking city to boot. I sold my car when I moved here 12 years ago, and either walk or use my bike. The mostly flat terrain is great for biking. So, Paul, when you see old video clips of the crowds fleeing the attacks, you will see many running north along the Hudson River bikepath which extends from 125th Street to Liberty Park.  Manhattan also has the largest concentration of thin, athletic, beautiful human bodies this side of California. I have to go to the gym four times a week just to maintain my residency rights.

  What was my point here? Oh, yeah, fat people -- which your text advances with the implicature (Gricean mode) of decadence.


  I seem to have hit a sensitive spot, this is based on a report from my brother-in-law who was recently on a training programme in Chicago.


  Didn't Nietzsche, influenced by Burckhardt

  - if you walk up the hill from the Jugendherberge in Basel you will stand right outside Jakob Burckhardt's house, there is a plaque that says so, perhaps its a joke (like the fat people).

  no doubt, revel in brutal decadent cultures like that of the Medicis? Wasn't there some paradox about the most vital and creative cultures also being decadent and cruel?


  no doubt, I suppose you plaster on face paint and wear a bra too, you decadent thing.


  Eric
  NYC

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----- Original Message -----
From: Scribe1865-AT-aol.com
To: nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:56 AM
Subject: adipose equivalences

In a message dated 7-10-2002 12:22:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, villanova-AT-btopenworld.com writes:


USA = one of the leading scientific, technological, intellectual, and
economic centers of liberal democracy

but also a place where a lot of fat people live


Ha-ha!

America, in gross general terms, seems to confine her fat people to suburbs and to Midwestern towns surrounded by cornfields. There are lots of understimulated people in the sticks who only talk about TV and food. They are kept in such locations so they do not embarrass the country to overseas visitors.

Here in Manhattan, it is a felony to be five pounds overweight, and it is a great walking city to boot. I sold my car when I moved here 12 years ago, and either walk or use my bike. The mostly flat terrain is great for biking. So, Paul, when you see old video clips of the crowds fleeing the attacks, you will see many running north along the Hudson River bikepath which extends from 125th Street to Liberty Park.  Manhattan also has the largest concentration of thin, athletic, beautiful human bodies this side of California. I have to go to the gym four times a week just to maintain my residency rights.

What was my point here? Oh, yeah, fat people -- which your text advances with the implicature (Gricean mode) of decadence.

 
I seem to have hit a sensitive spot, this is based on a report from my brother-in-law who was recently on a training programme in Chicago.
 
Didn't Nietzsche, influenced by Burckhardt 
 
- if you walk up the hill from the Jugendherberge in Basel you will stand right outside Jakob Burckhardt's house, there is a plaque that says so, perhaps its a joke (like the fat people).
 
no doubt, revel in brutal decadent cultures like that of the Medicis? Wasn't there some paradox about the most vital and creative cultures also being decadent and cruel?

 
no doubt, I suppose you plaster on face paint and wear a bra too, you decadent thing.
 
Eric
NYC
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