From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt)
Subject: Found Art
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,talk.abortion
Keywords: hang glider, rights, harness, viable
Reply-To: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com
Organization: Abiogenesis 4 Less
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:14:49 GMT


There is evidence here of simply de-speechifyingly brain-curdled
damaged neural activity in the article quoted below.

It's arguably simple stupidity, but I assert that this is the work of
a man with a brain the consistency of puff pastry -- fold, roll,
repeat a hundred times.  Disorders of this nature are a true wonder to
behold, I think.


In article <nyikos.716154519@milo.math.scarolina.edu>, nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:

[ Preamble deleted. ]

# Open letter to Galen [Hekhuis]:
# 
# 	Your advanced hang glider, the one you do not let anyone go
# up in who has had no previous experience, has asked me to tell you that
# it does not like your posting about how what a woman may or may not feel
# while hang-gliding compares to what she may or may not feel while
# pregnant.
# 
# {Recall how you wrote the other day on the "Corn (was Re: Badges of Honor)"
# thread: "I checked with someone who does both and she assures me that hang
# gliding is not even remotely like being pregnant."}
# 
# 	Like so many others, you missed the point that it is you who is
# inhabiting the hang glider, and not vice versa.  Your advanced hang glider
# has asked me to tell you that it alone is qualified to speak of what it
# is like to be inhabited by you.
# 
# 	It says that, as Ms. Regard might put it, giving you and other
# experienced hang gliders the right to inhabit it is giving yourselves
# a right over and above ANY rights any other human being on this planet
# has.  NO OTHER HUMAN BEING has the right to inhabit this hang glider 
# against its will, yet you would suggest that you should have that right?
# 
# 	Your hang glider tells me it thinks that's bogus.
# 
# 	So your hang glider reserves the right to expel you from its 
# body in a time and place it chooses.
# 
# 	You did say, you will recall, that it really is correct to say
# that you are a part of your hang gliding harness, how it and the hang
# glider and you are as one.
# 
# 	At the time it chooses to control its body in this
# way, you may be several thousand feet up in the air.  The fact that
# you would then plummet to your death has zip nada nothing to do with
# your hang glider's right to remove you from its body.
#  
# 	Your hang glider says it is allowed to use force UP TO AND 
# INCLUDING LETHAL FORCE to get you to vacate its harness.
# [Reference: 13hpc1INNmss@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com, 9 Jul 92 16:26:41 GMT]
# 
# 	Your hang glider further informs you that, should you make 
# yourself potentially viable by wearing a parachute, it will not 
# expel you unless you endanger its health, as for example if you
# attempt to engage an eagle in a duel. 
# 
# 	Should you attempt such a foolish thing, your hang glider
# reserves the right to expel you with such force as to knock you
# unconscious and render your parachute's automatic opening
# mechanism inoperable.
# 
# Peter Nyikos


-- 
J H Woodyatt (a.k.a. Dr. Strychnine)
Space Systems/Loral

"there's a lot going on that you miss. nothing soft about THESE
machines. mean, timeless, mean, purposeful, crammed with meaning."
                                                  -- Andrew Palfreyman
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