Re: virus: trancendence

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:14:28 -0500

>How do you describe sex to a virgin?

Ain't it more- how do you describe 'non-virginity' to a virgin?

How do you describe level 2 to a level 1'er? Or 3 to 2, or 1 to 0? Or apples to oranges?

Although, I think that's more like 'sex' in this example than anyone here really wants to admit.

And I think D.H. Lawrence described sex very well to this particular virgin at the time.

But I had to learn non-virginity from experience.

I've made this point before. There is no knowledge of real heat without being burned.

Every transcendent insight is a metaphor. The really good metaphors stick around.

Or like grains of sand, they get stuck in your toes....

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