"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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| Decay is a subject I have circled around and toyed with
| over the years but never actually confronted.  I was
| mostly intriqued by the question of whether the processes
| of decay, in say a human corpse, would be equal
| in complexity to the processes of life in the same body.

This is the type of thing that I had trouble with in deciding on a theme
for the round (I have since chosen one). Things like human decay don't
make an impression on me. As an atheist, I only see a body as working
(alive) or broken (dead). The decay process just doesn't have any
significance.

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| At the time I was working in a number styles, one of
| which was painting on rattan mats, putting a separate
| paint stroke on each thatch. I thought about decay
| and painted each thatch.

I'm in good company then. This is *remotely* similar to what I am doing
for the 'Decay' round. I have what I consider a good idea because it
could *only* be done with the precision of a computer.

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| Back in the OSU days I had tried to seduce her but she
| was stiff as a board.

Lesbian b***h, lol.

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| The beaches of Southern India come to mind, where I believe
| huge cargo ships are taken apart for scrap by armies of
| barefoot laborers.  That was my first idea anyway, when I
| saw the topic.

I work with a guy from India who sells parts from those very ships.
Again, this is something with which I cannon associate as negative a
concept as "decay." Maybe dispersion? Absorption? Decay to me suggests
more a thing that is going to waste without being used or reused, like a
certain part of the anatomy of the previously mentioned ex-student.

 -Shay

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