On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, John Callan wrote:

> Feng Shui makes it simple and gives out simple rules for those who don't
> want to do work necessary to determine what is reasonable in a specific
> instance.

A couple of years ago, a reporter for the NYT hired a whole series of Feng
Shui masters to scope out her apartment and make recommendations.  It made
for a funny little article.

Every one of them was distressed by the location of her cat's litter box,
at some kind of major power point.  In deference to this consensus, she
moved the litter box, and the cat started shitting in her plants instead.

But the real punchline was this: the less experience a given Feng Shui
master had, the more expensive the proposal to retrofit the apartment was.
The new-at-it Americans wanted to rip out walls; the old-time Chinese guys
had much cheaper suggestions, like putting up shiny decorations in certain
places to redirect the energy flow.

                                 Larry

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