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To: Poet who wrote (2510)	9/17/2001 12:29:49 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 51716

I AM evil! After causing you to rush to the kitchen and consume terrible fat wicked things, I smugly went and ate Mini-Wheats with skim milk.

To: Poet who wrote (2510)	9/17/2001 12:41:25 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51716

Eating is sort of a basic self defense mechanism. Somewhat related , my wife is much, much less of an internet junkie than me, but she sometimes reads and participates in a couple food related NYT online forums. There's this nut, lives in NY, bikes 2 hrs a day, 2 % body fat, eats nothing but rice and lentils or something like that. He's always blaming all the world's ills on fat people, and he found an angle in this one too. It's all quite bizarre. On a somewhat more literary plain, did you see the online NYT magazine special? It wasn't in yesterday's print edition, not the national one anyway, I think it's supposed to be next week's edition. nytimes.com . I haven't read much, but it looks really good. I don't know about you, but I think X likes Robert Stone, and I've been a fan since "Dog Soldiers". His piece is at nytimes.com . The expressions from Washington are nothing surprising — assurances of ‘‘resolve’’ and retribution. But in various ways, our internal narrative, our social and political foundations, circumscribe our capacity for revenge. The internal narrative of our enemies, their absolute ruthless devotion to an invisible world, makes them strong. Our system, too, is a state of mind. We need to find in it the elements that will serve our actual survival. The power of narrative is shattering, overwhelming. We are the stories we believe; we are who we believe we are. All the reasoning of the world cannot set us free from our mythic systems. We live and die by them.

To: Poet who wrote (2510)	9/17/2001 1:06:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 51716

Hey, has anyone else here been coping with stress by eating their brains out? I'm scared to get on a scale. I'd be amazed if I haven't gained 20 pounds. One day last week I went to my local Subway and brought home not one but two foot longs. After I had finished them, I called Takeout Taxi for delivery of dinner. I'm open for suggestions about my next course. I don't have any suggestions. The stuff I'm eating I wouldn't be caught dead eating during normal times. Definitely low brow comfort food. Don't forget, you're in training for that body building contest. <g> I'm not sure that right now I could fit in the door to watch it, let alone compete. Karen