Dragaera

Hello, I'd like to have an argument (was Re: duh!)

Tue Feb 8 13:43:09 PST 2005

--- 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

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