--- Jeff Gibbons <Log0n5150 at hotmail.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Brust" <skzb at dreamcafe.com> ... > > I beg to differ. Life MUST contradict itself in order to exist. A > > living body is constantly dying and being reborn, adding cells to > itself > > and sloughing off other cells. Death itself is a process (hence all > the > > legal problems about exactly at what point in an orgamism "death" > > occurs. In the time that it has taken me to write this, some numbers > of > > cells in my body have died; others have been created. Should this > > process stop, I would certainly be dead. > > > > > Not neccesarily, but you would be larger. ... Ha! And by the way, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)." --Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Song of Myself, sct. 51, Leaves of Grass (1855). <http://www.bartleby.com/66/60/64060.html> Jerry Friedman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com