Love your words about the sun. 'What if we were born for IT to possess US'. In another few years there will be 9 billion people. Mercy is such a big virtue and value.

Yes, I have stopped to think about the billion years ago stars, but not really about tachyons. They'd have to spin in three different planes? (I knew about dark energy before).

The other feelings are distrust, loneliness, uncertainity and suspicion and anger. So fear, sadness and anger. Is kindness a feeling, an action or both?

So the basic feeling of jealousy is the fear of loss.

Moses was a Jew. Noah brought 2 of every unclean animal and 7 of every clean animal. The Bible doesn't give a date. It doesn't matter what day we observe. (Sabbath day?) 72 hours? He was a child living in a house? The bible doesn't give a number. Only those from the tribe of Judah? Yes. Yes, it did attack Jews. I reserve judgement on this question. There is evidence to show that it is all of the above. All three answers cannot be true.

Liked the comparison with the sun and also that we focus on Jesus's character. He was tender and mild and kind. My best representation of Jesus is probably in "Silent Night". I remember when some characters in L M Montgomery's Story Girl were trying to find what God looked like. They saw a red-cent picture of a cross old man, and thought that was what God looked like.

Very amusing!

I wanted to be a psychiatrist when I was 14. Straight and decent information here.

I've been a Takeshi fan for over 11 years (as of the 2nd half of 1998) and it was great to read the review about Achilles and the Tortoise. I am also reading about Alternative Japan and really really enjoying it.

I think I really ought to buy this book or one like it.

It's poetry we do want (well, I want) and class be dusted. (This means poetry classes as well as the socio-economic strata). Am looking forward to reading all about the poetry of various lands. And movements as well, as well as the coverage of individual poets.

For those of you who have wanted to understand the man and what unmans him, this book really says something. All this contesting is a big theme. It all started with finger sacrifice in 20,000 BCE (this was a big part of THE PIANO). But castration in humans did not begin until 4000 BCE, and it has been getting more metaphorical ever since. And it's great the actual narrative starts with Christina Aguilera. (And Freud being called 'dummy'). They envy other women whose boyfriends are sterile? The fall of the scrotum. Both men and women have eyes, but men have the powerful gaze. (That is my understanding of Lacan feminist film criticism thus far: will refine as needed). by powerful, I mean subjugating. "A man is more than a *****". So only since the 1600s have we had a word or a name for castration...but Shakespeare used geld. That's a word we associate with horses. Thank you ever so. Will put on my reading list. So an eunuch is the guard of the marriage bed. Makes it worthwhile to learn (more) Greek.

Love the way you started with Tristan and Isolde. Chaucer was a great satirist, wasn't he? We only read The Wife of Bath when I was a student.