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Pastimes : Muffy's Story: A Short Story Game for Would Be Authors -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peach who wrote (220)	8/3/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 766

"Of course I am familiar with the phrase "kept woman", but I have ever in mind, Norma, that two of the great defining characteristics of capitalism, much underappreciated by socialist antagonists of the system are 1) endlessly intensifying division of labor, and 2) the reduction of the amount of labor required to maintain a standard of living at a level of one's choice, that is to say, (by the way, your raven hair looks quite lovely today, Norma,) capitalism encourages us to discover particular minute aspects of our individual endowments and to commercialize them to our personal advantage. As you are aware, my wealthy friend, my own 'personal endowments', set against the standard of living I require to compensate for the highly publicized misery of my early and also my recent years, suggest strongly that putting out for Hizzoner is an economically rational activity, and, truth be known, the time invested in these mayoral duties may be measured in mere seconds! Now, Norma... if a position-- so to speak-- becomes available...would you be interested in joining me in this stimulating engagement in free enterprise?..."