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skumar--

you're getting lots of mileage out of body/mind dualism this week!

Last night I saw the most amazing play, Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, @ the Wilma Theater in Center City. And the most powerful scene is a dialogue between an academic and his dying wife:

Eleanor: "They've cut, cauterised and zapped away my breasts, my ovaries, my womb, half my bowel and a nutmeg out of my brain, and I am undiminished. I'm exactly who I've always been. I am not my body. My body is nothing without me, that's the truth of it....I want your grieving soul or nothing. I do not want your amazing biological machine. I want what you love me with.”

And Max answers, “But that’s what I love you with. That’s it. There is nothing else.”