not what you say--who says it

some one is asking me what i am reading, its a book about a theory called monogenisis of the languages of the world and how they all are maybe decended from a single language, nostratic, that was spoken  in one place at one time, and then spread out like the branches of a tree to the rest of the worlds population. "ohnooooo" thit grimaced "that is so racist, please dont believe in that sort of stuff." thit said and went back to chopping vegetables in the kitchen. it was like this so often with this person that i didnt say any thing more and continued reading to my self and laughing at how prejudiced some people who claim to be broad-minded and "im an intellectual!" are when an idea that does not fit their politically-correct guidelines of intellectualism  is mentioned.

about a year later the same person  had been to a party and had talked to some lesbian of colour, from some country of the third world, who told thit a wonderful counter-culture theory she was studying about how all the languages of the world are decended from one original language that spread from the place it was invented, and this explained the incredible similaritys in all the languages of the world. "oh it was sooooogood to talk to someone with the courage to study things that go against the narrow-minded theories of the mainstream." thit said with that politically-correct smile on thit's face and went back to chopping vegetables in the kitchen.

i sat there laughing to my self wondering why it is when a white, male, gay, canadian had been reading about the same theory it was something, somehow misguided and in need of correction, but when! ...

classical moulding

concert hall designed by arthur erickson using the form of a cavetto moulding for the  exterior curtain wall.