This guy has never met my friends

[pecunium]

Language, however, puts information first and manipulation second. Suppose I were to explain to you Einstein's theory of relativity, or Chomsky's theory of a biologically based language organ. My purposes in giving you the information might well be that of impressing you, or even ultimately mating with you (although anyone who could be induced to mate by such means would have to be pretty weird).

Adam's Tongue Derek Bickerton p. 48

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[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The things which amuses me is that brains are the dealmaker. A pretty face/body, may cause me to want to go to bed with someone, and talent may make me want to repeat it, but it's all the trapping of wit which make me want to stay.

Which is why the net has been so good for me, in terms of finding people I am seriously interested in... because form (to paraphrase Wilkes) is lost to the sense of intelligence the written communication of the net makes plain.