Pornography, calculus, cinema, metaphor

[David Casseres]

There are so many layers to that brief scene...

On 3/8/07, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> Maybe this is what TRP is getting at in the Lake, Deuce, and Sloat at Four
> Corners episode.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
>
> >
> >Rather than elaborate exactly what units (heh heh) the axes of a
> >"sexual encounter" graph would be measured in (I agree with Monte
> >that a strict or humorless application of the terms of comparison
> >probably interferes with the ludic sense of the metaphor) I think
> >the easy, happy and most correct notion is that just as calculus
> >lets you think about a rocket's flight without actually launching
> >one...just so, mutatis mutandis with porn.
>
>
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