From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   henry999@eircom.net (Henry) writes:   
      
   > It's also hard to imagine that there are hundreds of millions of   
   > people alive today who will never sit in a chair of any sort in   
   > their entire lives.   
      
     And incidentally, when I talk about Seating I am not necessarily   
     talking about Chairs.  Those particular machines, devised inthe   
     West in the past five hundred years as means of keeping people   
     comfortably attending to business and out of contact with their   
     own or one another's bodies, are usually best dispensed with   
     altogether.     -- Paul Goodman, "Seating arrangements:..." (1952)   
      
   As for me, I am grateful for chairs, and for those cheaty Japanese   
   restaurants that have a pit under the table, because my knees don't   
   bend all the way.  I am eaten up with envy when I see people sitting   
   on their heels.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  Applause makes a good time to fart.  :||   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)