Re: "You can break a thousand..." Confused by Delany interview.

I just watched _The Polymath_. Toward the beginning, he breaks down his
contacts in a usual day back then, and, yep, it adds up.

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:17 PM, james_hesperornis <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  So, I was reading his interview with Looking Glass Magazine, and came upon
> this:
>
>  "But if you are living the way he—or I, for that matter—was living (and he
> was going from couch to couch, basically paying for his living space, food,
> drink, and happy to do it, with sex), with two or three sex parties in a
> week you can break a thousand very quickly, in a month or notably less."
>
>  The paragraph which precedes this suggests that this number is referring
> either generally to sexual encounters or specifically to swallows, not, as
> it might seem when taken out of context, money. The problem is, that comes
> to an average of over thirty-three per day. The tone of the interview
> doesn't seem obviously sarcastic or humorous, and an average human being
> only has so many hands, mouths, and orifices (to mention nothing of the
> number of other things that need to be done throughout the course of a
> typical day), so what exactly is he talking about? He mentioned sex parties,
> so could he be counting anyone who's present at such a party as someone with
> whom he's had sex? I don't mean to suggest any duplicity, especially since
> he's always seemed very candid and straightforward about everything, but I'm
> confused! Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
>
> Here's a link to the article:
> http://www.lookingglassmagazine.com/observatory/?p=118
>
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