Comments on: What my friends say… http://longbeachit.com/catia/?p=10 Cani e porci hanno il proprio blog, quindi anch'io! Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:11:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: alankk http://longbeachit.com/catia/?p=10#comment-31 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:11:21 +0000 http://longbeachit.com/catia/2006/10/16/what-my-friends-say/#comment-31 Cynthia, your cliches are running roughshod over my metaphors. Stop it.

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By: cynthia http://longbeachit.com/catia/?p=10#comment-18 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:39:08 +0000 http://longbeachit.com/catia/2006/10/16/what-my-friends-say/#comment-18 Catia, your body is your temple…um, I mean your bathroom…wait, that doesn’t sound right either. Damn Alan, your analogies are fucking with my cliches.

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By: toblasio http://longbeachit.com/catia/?p=10#comment-17 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:17:44 +0000 http://longbeachit.com/catia/2006/10/16/what-my-friends-say/#comment-17 ..And to think, no one yet has mentioned Jihad. Oh, oops.

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By: alankk http://longbeachit.com/catia/?p=10#comment-16 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:50:04 +0000 http://longbeachit.com/catia/2006/10/16/what-my-friends-say/#comment-16 s contributions is a close(r) reading of your original request, along with an admirable and downright Aristotelian strategy of realignment. To favor and perhaps condense this line of reasoning, I submit it is possible to love that which you kill. Cancer may deserve no spite, but neither does it deserve any quarter. People will declare war on ants in their bathrooms. This isn’t about the ants, it’s about the bathrooms. Honor and treasure the bathroom that is your body, Catia, and fight a righteous war.]]> Dear, dear Catia, to defeat even the most trifling physical discomfort, you would not hesitate to ingest antibiotic medication, thus overseeing the wanton slaughter of countless — and arguably innocent — microbes. The cockroaches proliferating in your food preparation area will be found unresponsive to rhetorical persuasion; if ejected unharmed, they will return in force, likely with a new understanding of you as an insufficiently ruthless adversary.

Toni shares with us many valuable insights, not least a stark recognition of my “incredible” qualities. While the urge to acknowledge such may be understandably overwhelming, it is superfluous in the discussion at hand (and, incidentally, any perceived pomposity is for entertainment purposes only; I am, without doubt, the most humble and modest person I know). Further among Toni’s contributions is a close(r) reading of your original request, along with an admirable and downright Aristotelian strategy of realignment. To favor and perhaps condense this line of reasoning, I submit it is possible to love that which you kill. Cancer may deserve no spite, but neither does it deserve any quarter. People will declare war on ants in their bathrooms. This isn’t about the ants, it’s about the bathrooms. Honor and treasure the bathroom that is your body, Catia, and fight a righteous war.

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