[extropy-chat] Professor Being Sued Over Anti-Aging Comments

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Thu Jun 23 18:38:24 UTC 2005


--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 01:14 PM 6/23/2005 -0500, I stupidly wrote:
> >At 10:05 AM 6/23/2005 -0700, c c <beb_cc at yahoo.com> speculated:
> >>Sinclair Lewis was the Christian writer who wrote that everyone has
> a 
> >>"God-shaped opening in the soul"?
> >>
> >> >Sorry, Upton Sinclair was the socialist author...
> >
> >No, you're thinking of Lewis Carroll, who wrote that everyone has a 
> >"cupboard shaped hole in their sole".
> 
> Obviously what I meant was "a wardrobe shaped absence in their
> Boojum".

Or those who kick out their fellow man in their search for God, and
wind up with a human-shaped cavity in their heart.  (Or, for the worst
offenders, often winding up with bullet- or knife-shaped...)  ;)



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