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From: barger@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Jorn Barger)
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Subject: Vulgar inquiry (*BLATTT*)
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Date: 21 May 91 20:34:46 GMT
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Settle a bet here: The local health food store is now carrying a pricey
little bottle of enzymes called "Beano" that you dripple onto your baked
beans etc, to prevent... flatulence. (Beg pardon!)  Now I remember hearing
somewhere that the sugars in beans, etc were indigestible because they
were stereoisomers/mirror images of the usual sugars.  My pal-who-hasn't-
won-one-yet says nature abhors an enantiomorph, and that no biological
molecule exists in nature in both forms.  Anybody know for sure? (Gotta
run...!)
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"If a therapist doesn't dive down to meet the Wild Man or Wild Woman,
he or she will try to heal with words.  The healing energy stored
in waterfalls, trees, clay, horses, dogs, porcupines, llamas,
otters belong to the domain of the Wild People.  Therapists will
have understood this when they insist on doing therapy with a cow
in the room."  Robert Bly _Iron John_
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