On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, tanya doroshenko wrote:
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> Hello, I just completed a fourth year subject on Foucault and well yes it's
> true,
> I may be addicted - help
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> here comes Dumbo Q1
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> what's an onanism?
Well, according to my vade mecum: Merriam Webster, the term probably
originates from "Onan, son of Judah (Genisis 38:9)" and means
1. Masturbation
2. Coitus Interruptus
3. Self-Gratification.
I think it had something to do with some poor laddy spilling his "seed".
If the term has any greater meaning in a Foucault-ian sense, I wouldn't
know. But if the prior post implies that ritalin is the new happy-fun
drug of choice, perhaps this definition will help.
Caio,
PMK
> Tatiana Tanya Doroshenko
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> tdor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
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The energy produced by breaking down the atom is a very poor thing.
Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these
atoms is talking moonshine.
-- Ernest Rutherford, 1933
(five years before fission was accidentally discovered by
German physicists Hahn and Strassman)