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From:  thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
Date:  Sun Jan 27, 2002  12:49 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] shiny happy people


Nice.

Mark



On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Caio Rossi wrote:

> I don't owe you any explanations and I'm not supposed to change topics just
> because you've decided that. Why don't YOU move on:
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> Caio
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
> To: <vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [vocalist] shiny happy people
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> On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Caio Rossi wrote:
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> > 2nd. Be those movements voluntary or involuntary, I'm not a doctor so I'm
> > not supposed to feel OK when I see parts of the body whose aspect do not
> > correspond to what you see everyday. How many people can follow a heart
> > bypass surgery on Discovery Channel without feeling at least some
> > discomfort? Now, imagine you went to an opera and the tenor was holding
> his
> > heart in a transparent box linked to his chest and a thick stream of blood
> > flowed in and out of it. Wouldn't that influence whether you'd take
> > advantage of a 50-percent-discount seat in the orchestra? His blinking
> eyes
> > are very much likely to produce a similar effect on the public, and that's
> > the meaningful downside of this blindness, marketwise. If he really wanted
> > to exploit his disability, it would be much more logical if he wore
> > sunglasses, like most blind artists do.
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> I could not possibly disagree more (except with the use of such a poor
> analogy between open-heart surgery and the physical affliction of a blind
> person.) Hardly a PC person myself, I am somewhat disconcerted that
> adults do not expect to handle themselves with decorum over something so
> slight as batting eyes, a limp, the uncoordination of a victim of MS,
> common disfigurements, etc. Can you imagine how someone with such
> affliction must feel (not to mention the psychological development
> involved) when people turn away, rather than looking them straight on and
> accepting them for what they are and who they are? Surely you did not
> explain yourself well. What exactly did you mean? If I understood this
> correctly, them perhaps it is time to move on to another topic.
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> Best,
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> Mark
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