haha hoho hehe
----- Original Message -----
From: Phillip Capper <phillip.capper@webresearch.co.nz>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:15 PM
Subject: RE: RE: clocks and time machines
> Martin Owen wrote
>
> >he goes to lunch at 12:15 each day
> I repeat DNA'a statement "time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so". So
> we have time for lunch in New Zeland! ho hum! I am in the wrong universe.
>
> As some of you will recently have noticed, we are all hobbits down here.
And
> one thing hobbits always try not to do is to miss lunch.
>
> Anyway, as an alumni of the university in which Martin now sits, I remain
> sceptical of the impression of lunch in Bangor which Martin attempts to
> imply. But should we not return to Epicurus through the lens of Marx? If
the
> biological needs of our body are so muted that we miss lunch, then surely
we
> did not need lunch, and therefore lunchtime was indeed an illusion - or
> rather a socially constructed activity whose object is other than that of
> satisfying a biological need. Which brings us back to time, or the
conscious
> experience of time, as being a cultural phenomenon.
>
> Now - having completed my Emails - it is time for breakfast.
>
> Phillip Capper
> WEB Research
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