Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 13:19:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Lakshmi Gopinathan Nair <lnair-AT-uclink2.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: wrything my cyborgian body Radhika, I loved the words "intellectual bulimia/and anorexia" such a powerful image. In how many ways, do we shovel in words and thoughts gorging on the junk, only to feel sick to our stomachs? And then the frantic expelling, purging feeling empty but still dirty. So we starve ourselves like Jains in search of that elusive purity of mind (and body?) which is ourselves only. And on a related note: These diseases are so deep-rooted in the excessive excess of this society. They trickle down to "our" part of the world only so far as the top where excess ever accumulates. To be seen in the area where we have mastered the art of excess, as filmi heroines waste away to skin and bones, making tautly muscled undernourished laborers seem suddenly enviable--poster children of 24-fitness spas or Jenny Craig. just some of the things the image brought to mind for me.
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