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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: cosmicforce who wrote (7208)3/3/2001 9:17:16 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
You must have a v-chip in your brain. I didn't criticize Sagan for having sex with his wife in the shower. In fact, I criticized him for just the opposite.
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This was the quote I found amusing-"I can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of Gaussian distribution curves," he wrote in his essay. "I wrote the curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down."

Not only was he not paying attention to his wife in a nice sensual setting, the whole notion sounds banana-headed. The origins and invalidities of racism in terms of Gaussian distribution curves? The guy was out of it.

The article cited Sagan's own words, I don't think he was trying to be apocryphal.
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