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Happy New Year to the denizens of the list. I thought we may as well start the new millennium in fighting mode so here goes. Sums If a man is the sum of his parts, does it mean that I’m no longer me, if I can’t find some things I once had, e.g. I am missing some teeth, and I lose bits of beard every day, and I’ve clipped away metres of nails, and medical science has pared my appendix and tonsils and brain. I’m a ‘not quite first class’ human being, or so they would have me believe, these people who draw unseen lines, and wish that I too was unseen, with my rag tag collection of parts and my ‘in your face’ shuffling stride, and my ‘less than co-operative’ stance when requested to stand to one side. I’m a ‘not yet quite dead’ human being, with parts that I have yet to try, and a strong and enduring belief that parts are just part of my life; and a question for those who persist, in perceiving my limits as me -- if a man is the sum of his parts, what does lacking compassion imply? © Dennis Greene 2000 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 51, dxd '87, 1st symptoms '82 email - [log in to unmask] Website - http://members.iinet.net.au/~dennisg/ (most recent update -Nov 5, 1999) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++