Date:         Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:04:12 EST
From: wrotten on the line? <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TECH: short brontes ;-) the brains of the family!~ r...r..r...

[some loose words from Sept. 29...about time to let them flee into the
interstices of the network, I suppose...lift your feet, here they
come!]

post-pubescent?

[hum...a quick dip into the reference works netted me some mention of
newspapers (one hopes there is no Pubescent Press, for all the
hormonal upsets fit to print?), mail (again, I doubt that we are
talking about the pubescent express, rushing from har to thar on
horseback?), and some architectural business about post-and-lintel,
referring to the upright post...I suppose that could be a masked
reference to one of the masculine problems of that age, but I rather
doubt it...thus I am forced to attempt a daffinition bare of
reference, and almost of sense...]

pubescent -- adj. arriving or having arrived at puberty.

puberty - n. the stage at which a person's reproductive organs are in
the process of becoming mature and he or she becomes capable of
producing offspring.

so is post-pubescent simply maturity, or does it refer to something
beyond maturity (as post-modernism apparently refutes the modernity,
producing declining wails and other short tails?)?

[and we find our stalwart sailing the good ship hormone...

Approaching maturity, Captain!

Point her at the stars, crank her up, and let us go beyond maturity,
beyond reproduction, beyond the beyond, all the way to...

Okay, that's pretty far...

pay no attention to the man behind the curtain or to any squeals and
wiggles that may occur...it's only stimulation...er, simulation!]

*giggle*

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