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quote from the prinicple of hope
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Theresa Healy <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:20:17 -0700
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Just had to share this - 

"So hardly any of the ills of the body are removed when it is seen in
isolation. That is why all improvers of our situation who merely
concentrate on health are so petit-bourgeois and odd, the raw fruit and
vegetable brigade, the passionate herbivores, or even those who practise
special breathing techniques. All this is a mockery compared with solid
misery, compared with diseases which are produced not by weak flesh but
by powerful hunger, not by faulty breathing but by dust, smoke, and
lead. Of course there are people who breathe correctly, who combine a
pleasant self-assurance with well-ventilated lungs and an upright torso
which is flexible to a ripe old age. But it remains a prerequisite that
these people have money; which is more beneficial for a stooped posture
than the art of breathing."
Bloch, Ernst (1995), The principle of hope. Cambridge, Mass. (MIT
Press), 467

Theresa Healy, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Dept. of Gender Studies and the School of Environmental Planning
UNBC, Prince George, BC. V2N 4Z9
email: [log in to unmask]; cell phone: 250-565-1955

"Until lions have their own historian, tales of the hunt will always
reflect the hunter." African proverb.

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