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From: LAVITSKY@RUTGERS.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V9 #115
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Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 14:25:22 EDT
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From:  Eric 

	Date: Wed 6 Jun 84 22:19:45-PDT
	From: Laurence R Brothers 
	Subject: STIII (yet more)

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	And did you believe T'pau -- wearing LIPSTICK? The Vulcan ceremony
	was the most ridiculuous thing I've seen in a long time.


 Remember that  the Vulcans  were  once one  of the  most  barbaric,
illogical races  in  existance. Many  of  their old  ceremonies  and
traditions  simply  stayed  with  them,   perhaps  as  a  means   of
remembering what perils such barbarism and illogic brings -much like
the Jewish tradition - "Remember what so and so did to you" etc.. so
it would not happen again. Surely there is no logic to the ceremony,
but it is something so ancient and so personal to the Vulcans, that
not even they can clearly justify its existance...

"The word is warp speed"
Wreckless Eric		
			ARPA: Lavitsky@Rutgers
			UUCP: ...harpo!whuxlb!ru-blue!lavitsky
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