(urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

[David Stockhoff]

to say nothing of the noses ...

On 5/1/2011 1:02 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> The truly strong arm swings where it wills, and by the strength of that swing convinces other arms of its rightful rotational reign.
>
> --- On Sun, 5/1/11, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>  wrote:
>
>> From: Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List"<urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 9:31 AM
>> On 5/1/2011 7:08 AM, David Stockhoff
>> wrote:
>>> Is it impossible? I had no idea. ;)
>> If your freedom to swing your arm doesn't end where my nose
>> begins, obviously my nose is harmed for the benefit of you
>> getting to swing your arm as you like.
>>
>> If we agree to limit the freedom to swing our arms where
>> the noses of others begins, there's no check on the the
>> proliferation of noses and one day I am harmed by the
>> atrophy of my arms because there's no room to swing them at
>> all.
>>
>> We could compromise on a minimum arm-swinging radius, but
>> this harms armless people by reducing their nose-room while
>> they obviously get no benefit from more arm room.
>>
>> And so on.
>>
>> -- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>> Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M
>> Texarkana
>> <  http://www.tamut.edu/CIL>
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