Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!decvax!dartvax!karl 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 Article-I.D.: dartvax.896 Posted: Sun Mar 18 09:47:40 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:25:08 EST References: <432@ihuxj.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 30 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