Date:  Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:21:54 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: why are ships referred to as she (fwd)



>I concede the point, though I never thought of body parts as

>"possessions" but

>as extensions of myself.



And if they ARE considered to be "possessions", they are--let us

hope--inalienable possessions. The occasional counterexemplificatory Bobbitt

is the exception that proves the rule.





Larry