Thank you Chris for the excellent news on tobacco-smoking, I do not know how
to explain it but I feel all well-medicated now and perfectly balanced with
my cigarette in my mouth since I need the two hands to type. Ah you also
mean the Gaelic genes have something to do with it all? How interesting,
great news, indeed!
On 2/7/07, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Chris Yes the benefits of getting birdflu are well known and look what
> adding aresenic to Vileboris catfood has produced !!!and in my case the
> effects of death have been overated
> P super P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chris Jones
> Sent: 07 February 2007 07:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: when smoking is good...
>
> I have been doing some medical research and smoking tobacco medicates
> against the more serious onset of coeliac disease (gluten intolerance)
> in an estimated 80 percent of cases who are smokers and also medicates
> against schizophrenia which is another symptom of coeliac disease. Given
> that coeliac disease can be fatal if it is not diagnosed early enough
> smoking cigarettes can be a real life saver as well as saving your
> sanity. (I should know, I smoke 25 cigarettes a day, my preferred brand
> is Dunhill Premier in the red pack.) So it is obvious that bread can do
> far more fatal harm then cigarettes ever could. It has also been noted
> that patients in this group do not go on to get lung cancer. And further
> to this coeliacs cannot take holy communion and so cannot go to heaven,
> if the Pope is to be believed on these matters and so if you are a
> coeliac you cannot be a true Christian. (something to do with Celtic
> genes being incompatible with the true Roman faith in theology.)
>
> I suspect Coleridge had coeliac disease, based on the symptoms reported
> and his need for opium and his early demise. And according to
> unconfirmed sources, Gore Vidal has CFS. CFS as an illness produces a
> different relation to narrative which is more along the lines of the
> concept of side-shadowing as proposed by Morson in _Narrative and
> Freedom_. This goes some way toward resolving the difficulty and
> sophistication of Vidal's narrative modality. I have still to invent an
> illness for my two main characters... maybe an environmental
> neuro-toxicity agent such as hydrocarbons gasses released from motor
> vehicles and coal burning power stations and followed by desalination
> plants built on the industrial wasteland left vacant by petrochemical
> producers during an election campaign when the choice is no choice and
> to decide is to be already chosen. Neuro toxic.
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