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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (6574)	1/23/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Dear Alex, After the birth--do not mention #2 for at least a year.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (6574)	1/23/1998 3:54:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I have a headache from trying to read Feelings!!! How can people keep up? I think I'll sit here in the peace and quiet for a bit. I guess mostly I find the current situation sad and sordid and unworthy of all this hoopla. But some of the issues are interesting. Alexa and I have been reading Kate Chopin. She recommended The Awakening to me and I loved it because despite all the progress we have made, I think we are all still as bound by social convention as we ever were! There is much at Feelings about how sexually repressed we are and judgmental and someone said we needed a new morality... and I just saw your response to my post about mythology as steward of the moral center (wonderful phrase-wish I'd thought of it!) and the slipperiness of truth. Do you think that this very quality is why we end up with myths rather than a "how to" book? The myths allow a certain amount of personal interpretation and a degree of variety in behavior? Our Christian mores have become too confining in the sense that they are too narrow in definition and so we can't integrate them and make them our own in the context of our modern lives? In The Awakening there is a wonderful line by the doctor about the conflict between nature and man's self-imposed mores. "Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." Finding a healthy balance between these is where it's most slippery, isn't it.