did you say he's out selling phiz on a sunday?

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 17:09, calbert at hslboxmaster.com wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 10:56, Lucky Pierre wrote:
> > 
> > > Wonder if Brock Vond ever read it. Zoyd in Jail? 
> > > Brock was a student of that head measuring mad doctor.
> > > What was his name? 
> > > His index? 
> > > 
> > > Nope, don't wanta go there.
> > 
> > Oh, might as well--show we're paying attention.
> > 
> > Cesare Lombroso
> > 
> to which phrenology is somewhat related.........had to read Comte 
> de Gobineau on the subject of the "peppercorn capacity" of various 
> crania....of course then, it was HAUTE science.....



I guess divination based on bodily shapes goes back to the ancients whom
I assume considered it a science as did Gobineau and Hitler. .
Physiognomy, palmistry, phrenology 

Even Thomas Aquinas.

The respectability of an activity waxes and wans through the ages.

P.