Re: Sunday Times article
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:22:41 -0500 (EST)
heh...I was gonna rephrase that...
A beautiful woman is like honey poured into a fine swiss watch -- she
makes everything stop working.
But that's not quite true. More like, "almost" everything.
Jim
"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
--F.K.
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:40:44 -0500 (EST) BOWNELINE@aol.com writes:
>I suppose that he means that beautiful woman do no put out anymore if
>your
>educate them. But it is a clumsy analogy. Can you suggest how to
>restructure it, using the same terms, to better convey the apparent
>meaning.
>Certainly not "A beautiful woman is like a fine swiss watch, if you
>pour honey
>on her she will stop working." That makes more sense that "A fine
>swiss
>watch is like a beautiful woman, if you educate it it will stop
>working." I
>think the analogy cannot be rehabilitated. My theory is that
>Vonnegut's brain
>wasn't functioning properly when he stated it: "Vonnegut's brain works
>like a
>fine swiss watch into which honey has been poured when he is thinking
>about
>the implications of educating beautiful women." Or "thinking about
>beautiful
>women distracts the male mind" Who could disaggree with that??
>JTB
>
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