At 12:02 AM Tuesday 8/23/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 8/23/05, Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An example of the true value of a Harvard education,
> drawn from a recent post on the Harvard Boston recent
> grads email list, as part of a request for a roommate:
>
> "Looking for someone similar to the two of us already
> in the house: mid-20's young professional or grad
> student. Someone who is clean, respectful, easy to get
> along with, who values having a nice home, and
> doesn't mind emptying the dishwasher or changing the
> role of toilet paper."
>
> So, does anyone have any ideas as to new _roles_ for
> toilet paper? Apparently the old one isn't sufficient
> anymore :-)
>
> Gautam Mukunda
Clearly what we have here is a rather progressive youngster, a shining
example of the further march of liberty: this wimmin, or persun, is
advocating that toilet paper be liberated from its constricted role of
cleaning our bottoms. They hold with Freud that this fixation on the
anus is infantilizing, and retarding of progress integrating the self;
in short blocking personal growth. Thusly, we must change the "role"
which toilet paper plays to clean other areas, such as the nostrils,
or the mouth, other bodily orifices.
Just be sure you do that _first_, before using it for its traditional role
. . .
I dare say that in this cry for
progress we can see a covert dialectic, leading to a synthesis of the
negative, or "shadow" aspects of the whole metemphysical nature of
toilet paper: what could be more subversive than turning an item that
is meant to clean, and tragically, be immediately disposed of into a
representation of the Great Mother that the patriarchal Western
scientific society has repressed and demonized than by into the
embodiment of its enemy, waste, and permament waste at that?
~Maru
I promise I won't do that again.
If you can do it regularly, I predict you have a great future in academia .
. .
-- Ronn! :)
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