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From: karl@dartvax.UUCP (Karl Berry)
Newsgroups: net.social,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Shower the People You Love with Love!!
Message-ID: <896@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 09:47:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 18 09:47:40 1984
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ke someone, or to know that whoever is sitting across from me
likes me. Furthermore, I have no desire for relationships to be
miscontrued -- as you correctly pointed out, much touching in our
society is sexually oriented. If I lived in France, I might feel
differently, but I don't, we're stuck here where kissing implies
romanticism. Ok, so I won't kiss my friends.
   Finally, people who don't like to be touched do not necessarily
have the attitude you give them, i.e., going about in a blue funk.
( A paraphrase, I know. ) They probably have reasons of their own for
not being as chipper as you want them to be, which have nothing to do
with getting hugged when you come in the door.

   Let me conclude this rather medium-sized posting with
   "So, so you think you can tell
    Heaven from Hell? Blue skies from pain?
    Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
    A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?"
                         -- R. Waters.
   A non-tactile but not necessarily unhappy person,
           karl@dartvax   or    {cornell,decvax}!dartvax!karl