Try being on betablockers for twenty years.
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Parker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
> Coming in late on the thread, but at least I've read the article.
> Creative energy is sexual energy, in my opinion, i.e., the impulse springs
> from the same bio-electro/chemical source/location in the brain. My
> opinion
> is not based on any study but personal observation. Whenever I've been
> prescribed any tranquilizer the first effect is a numbing of the sexual
> impulse, even of physical sensitivity. The creative and sexual act takes
> an
> effort of will (different part of the brain). Consequently I stop taking
> the
> pills after a time and celebrate the return of sensitivity to the creative
> forces like the return of Spring. Let's hear it for Mother Nature!
>
> Frank
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
>
>
>> >that writers tend to be people who find language an erotic activity.<
>>
>> one could also say, me ducks, that writers tend to be people who find
>> language a neurotic activity.
>>
>> (and one can say and say, and still find a universe full of un-american
>> silence, and presumably loads of garbage, staring back at one, in the
> face.
>> If only I had said about.... one thinks, always)
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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