Re: Sunday Times article

Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:34:46 -0800 (PST) 

Oh Matt, 

All I have to say is EEKK! I can only read it like this: A swiss watch 
is a great thing until you pour honey in it then its broken. In turn 
meaning, educating a beautiful woman is the same a ruining her. 

Florie    


>From: Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Sunday Times article
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:55:36 -0600
>
>On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:14:26 -0800 (PST) writeflorie@hotmail.com 
(Florie
>Sommers) wrote:
>
>>"Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine
>> swiss watch. Everything stops."  -- Kurt Vonnegut
>>
>>Before I get offended I would like to know exactly what you mean by 
this
>>statement?
>>
>>
>Let's look at this analogy, shall we?  A fine Swiss watch is a good, 
expensive
>thing.  Dependable.  You know what to expect from it.  Takes a licking 
and
>keeps on ticking.  etc.
>
>Honey is also a good thing.  Sweet.  Cheap.  Not ever exactly the same 
twice
>but always tasty.
>
>These two things individually are great, but if you put them together
>everything stops.  You can no longer eat the sweet honey, nor can you 
depend
>on your fine Swiss watch.
>
>A beautiful woman is a good expensive thing.  Dependable.  You know 
what to
>expect from it.  Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.  etc.
>
>Education is also a good thing.  Sweet.  Cheap.  Not ever exactly the 
same
>twice but always tasty.
>
>These two things individually are great, but if you put them together
>everything stops.  You can no longer enjoy the sweet erudition of 
education,
>nor can you depend on your beautiful woman, she now has a brain and can 
think
>for herself, turning your alpha-male hierarchy upside down.
>
>The analogy seems to be a eulogy for the male-dominated society in 
which
>Vonnegut grew up that was overthrown by the onslaught of feminism in 
which he
>came of age.  It may also just mean that Kurt likes ignorant, leggy 
blondes
>with a nice full C-cup.  Either way, I always enjoy a good Vonnegut 
quote.
>
>--Matt Stevenson
>
>

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