Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0204011524001.3518-100000@panix1.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: warmth
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:24:10 -0500 (EST)
- warmth Jennifer wonders about her new boy. Jennifer says, when we cuddle together we are very very warm. Jennifer's boy wonders about this. Jennifer says, look at it this way. We are warmer for two reasons. Where our bodies touch, we are not cold and we pass warmth among us so that the warmth is there and nice with us, and our bodies come together in warmth and coolness and then warmness all over. And our skin which is not touching, that skin is less than the separate skins of our separate selves. And so, her boy says, if we adopt a third, there will be even less surface and more inside and lovely warmth. yes yes says Jennifer, and we can add a fourth and fifth, and her boy says as we add more and more, the surface is smaller and smaller compared to all the lovely warmth inside. Oh yes says her boy, if we had hundreds and hundreds, why then so many will be so lovely warmth inside all over, and on the surface, even then only half will be cold and the other half warmed by the great engine within. Yes, says Jennifer, and we will be a part of that great engine and all warmed with that lovely warmth and all toasty. We are warmed by our thinking says Jennifer's boy. Yes yes yes says Jennifer, we are very warmed by our hundreds of thinking thoughts and bodies surrounding us in such lovely warmth. _