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From: David Sucher <dsucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 17:30:15 -0700
At 7:46 PM 9/5/95, Wayde Justin Tardif wrote:
>Is the "acid-test" pleasant-ness?
It is indeed, Wayde.
We may babble on about the virtue of thorns and hair shirts, but comfort is
the rock-bottom measure, world-wide. From snails to males we all like to be
comfortable, we strive for it; we live longer with comforts.
Now one may prefer to define 'comfort' narrowly and see it simply as the
wicked, tasteless, heartless accoutrements of a bourgeois mentality---or
worse, per Mr. Windsor---if that makes for pleasure.
One may prefer to see 'comfort' as something gotten only at the 7-11 or on
the asphalt parking lot of a TJ MAXX.
But I think that is too narrow.
I prefer a broad view of 'comfort' and encompassing many public and private
pleasant places.
And it interests me that so many people on this list associate 'comfort'
with something bad...shades of Cotton Mather? Some guilt about our luck? I
sometimes feel it, too. But I have never been able to make others around me
happier when I am uncomfortable; in fact it seems to work the other way. :)
How do _you_ prefer to define 'comfort'?
You seem to be against it: Are you really?
Perhaps you prefer 'Dis-Komfort?'
Then America must indeed be heaven for you. :)
Cheers,
Dave
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David Sucher
"...roller-blades today, golf clubs tomorrow..."