Right on, Dennis! and a Happy one to you and family, too!
>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 Iím no longer me,
>if I canít find some things I once had, e.g. I am missing some teeth,
>and I lose bits of beard every day, and Iíve clipped away metres of nails,
>and medical science has pared my appendix and tonsils and brain.
>
>Iím a ënot quite first classí 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 ëin your faceí shuffling stride,
>and my ëless than co-operativeí stance when requested to stand to one side.
>
>Iím a ënot yet quite deadí 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
>
>
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>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)
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"...everywhere I go,
I find that a poet
has been there
before me..."
...Sigmund Freud
