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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Intelligent and single women
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Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 17:45:37 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 17 17:45:37 1984
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>But more seriously, there is a real difference between interesting and
>intelligent.  I dated a nurse for more than a year who had a great 
>personality, was warm and sociable and interesting, but not in 
>the same league intellectually.  She was curious and asked about my work 
>and other interests, but it seemed like talking into a black hole.  The
>explanations were all at a low level (thus long-winded and boring for me),
>"information" flow was one way, and it didn't seem like she had much
>to teach me.  The world of ideas is important to me, and I would rather
>spend my time with someone who will also contribute.  They are around, but
>they are at least as hard to find as intelligent men.

This may sound like a dumb question, but could the problem have been that
you simply weren't interested in her work as much as she was in yours? I
happen to find medicine a fascinating subject personally, but it could have
been that the things she contributed were not in your interest, not that
she wasn't interesting.

chuq

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