Re: Sunday Times article
Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:35:07 -0800 (PST)
you're missing the education part of the quote.
>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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