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balataf
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 Posted - 08/01/2005 : 8:43:30 PM
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Quotation from "The Prophet" - Khalil Gibran
And the Weaver said: Speak to us of clothes.
And he answered:
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty,
yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments
the freedom of privacy you may find in them
a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and
the wind with more of our skin and less
of our raiment,
For the breath of life is in the sunlight
and the hand of life is in the wind.
Some of you say, "It is the north wind
who has woven the clothes we wear."
And I say, Ay, it was the north wind.
But shame was his loom, and the soften-
ing of the sinews was his thread.
And when his work was done he laughed
in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield
against the eye of the unclean.
And when the unclean shall be no more,
what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling
of the mind.
And forget not that the earth delights to
feel your bare feet and the winds long to
play in your hair.
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balataf
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Posted - 08/08/2005 : 03:31:15 AM
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"If Man was meant to be nude, he would have been born that way"
-Oscar Wilde
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balataf
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Posted - 08/23/2005 : 11:38:40 AM
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In the powerful novel, "Ender's Game'" by Orson Scott Card, there is one particular incident of social nudity.
There are hundreds of students in a special military training school on an orbiting satellite. They find that their personal movements are being tracked thru radio-emitting fibers woven into their clothing.
These preteen kids, overwhelmingly male, but with a levening of girls, stage a rebellion by going without their clothing until the practice is stopped.
There are several other social nude incidents in this series of books, which are quite well written and form a coherent story.
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balataf
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Posted - 08/25/2005 : 7:39:03 PM
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One of Robert A Heinlein's early novels, "The Puppet Masters," deals with an alien invasion of Earth. These beings are able to tap into a Human's central nervous system thru the spine.
At first, they clamp onto a person's back and neck, so the people start going without shirts.
As an adaptation, the aliens then hide in the crotch area, tapping into the base of the spine, so that complete nudity becomes socially mandatory indoors, and, weather permitting, outdoors.
Social and home nudity is scattered thru many of Heinlein's other novels and stories. Several testimonials show that he was an avid home nudist.
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bornnude
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Posted - 08/26/2005 : 08:01:12 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by balataf
Social and home nudity is scattered thru many of Heinlein's other novels and stories. Several testimonials show that he was an avid home nudist.
One of my favorites, "A Door Into Summer" the main character travels back in time and lands in a field right in the middle of a nudist "camp" neare Boulder Colorado, meeting one of the attenders.
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balataf
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Posted - 08/29/2005 : 11:07:40 AM
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In Wallace West's 1960s novel "The Bird of Time'" a traveller returns to Earth after several years to find that clothing has gone out of style.
Instead, people strap gizmos on their wrists that project bands of light. These can be set to hide the crotch and breast areas, or might, instead be at wrists, elbows or other less strategic areas. They can be set to levels of opacity or see-thru. For formal evening occasions, they are just turned off.
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balataf
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Posted - 08/29/2005 : 11:13:22 AM
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"The Garments of Caen" by Barrington Bayley focuses on a critique of clothing, itself.
A particular star-cluster develops a set of cultures in which clothing dominates everyone's lives, with rich elaborate styles for every occasion. An expedition to research this discovers that these people have been invaded by an intellegent, but passive living cloth.
Meanwhile, in Caen, the rebel underground is made up of secret nudists.
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balataf
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Posted - 08/31/2005 : 5:56:31 PM
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In Heinlein's "Revolt in 2100", the hero is a defector from the American religious dictatorship based on a techo-fakery base. Traveling with a leader of the revolutionary underground, the group, includes some women. They all stop and take a break at an isolated lake for skinny dipping. The defector is shocked and says it is immoral, whereupon the leader rebukes him, and asks how he knows that, and if God told him personally.
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balataf
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Posted - 09/01/2005 : 6:33:16 PM
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As Bornude remarked above, there is an incident in the Heinlein novel, "The Door Into Summer." The hero is driven to desperate measures when his business is stolen by crooked associates. He hooks up with a time travel experiment to go back a generation, but is mightily confused to wind up in the woods along with a group of naked people, and thinks he went to the future instead of his own past. He had landed in a nudist colony!
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Posted - 09/04/2005 : 01:40:45 AM
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And in Heinlein's classic Stranger in a Strange Land, he posits a religious organization in which all the members are nude when at home or among friends. A sign is posted by the door of the dwelling, "Did you remember to dress?"
Actually, the Dean had a number of references to casual social nudity in many of his works. In Glory Road the mode of interstellar travel does not allow clothing to accompany the traveller, so they arrive nude. [Do I have that right, Sabre?]
Old Hippie
Dum vivimus, vivamus!
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balataf
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Posted - 09/12/2005 : 2:19:49 PM
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From Fritz Leiber's "The Swords of Lankhmar", a picaresque fantasy comedy.
"Clothes are so itchy," (Reetha) said. "I can hardly bear them. I like to ride bareback - my back, not the horse's. While hair is even itchier. I can feel mine growing. You will have to shave me every day, Dear."
(The Gray Mouser) agreed to take on that chore, but added, "I can't concur with you altogether, Sweet. Besides protecting from brambles and dust, clothes give one a certain dignity."
Reeth retorted tartly, "I thnk there's more dignity in the naked body.
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balataf
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Posted - 09/14/2005 : 2:54:02 PM
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In a short story by Larry Niven, "Bordered in Black," a planet is discovered on which the situation is very strange.
There are only two forms of life on this world, people and a vast oceanic soup with nutritional value. The people are confined to one largish tropic island, and all live on the beaches surrounding it, so as to eat directly from the sea. No other resources exist, with barren land, no other aquatic life and, of course, nothing to make clothing from.
These people are first detected from a readout of their body heat energy. The exploreres decide that they must be a food crop waiting to be harvested by an unknown agency.
But they don't have clothes!
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Posted - 09/14/2005 : 11:48:50 PM
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Nathaniel Hawthorne spoke of air baths many times in his memoirs. At least once a week the entire family would be nude thru out the day taking a healthy air bath. Ben Franklin's memoirs also recount many an airbath. Not exactly literature...
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Posted - 10/20/2005 : 3:35:43 PM
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I have read recently that the essayist and social and economic trends commentator, Peter F. Drucker, altho he works in a regular office with a receptionist, works nude in his own private inner office. It is not recorded how he greets his usual visitors.
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Posted - 11/27/2005 : 05:20:29 AM
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I have found out that, only a few days after my last posting above, Mr. Drucker died, aged 93.
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