Klarinet Archive - Posting 000148.txt from 2000/03

From: klar-ANN-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Toys? Obsessions?
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:27:47 -0500

superstitions!

On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 17:08:25 GMT Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay) writes:
>On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 07:08:41 -0800, vsofan@-----.com said:
>
>> How about "treasure" or "treasured posession" instead of obsession?
>
>I suppose I don't want that because both of those are terms for things
>that are acceptable and defensible, whether they're rational or not.
>Probably we all have treasured possessions.
>
>What I wanted was a term for something that I think isn't really
>acceptable or defensible, and that should be argued against, even if
>it's understandable. I wanted a descriptive term that had built into
>it
>the idea of a lack of proportion, and a lack of proportion when
>dealing
>with the world, on the part of attitudes falling under it.

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