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Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. this is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. microcosm mirrors macrocosm. free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.
-Camille Paglia
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Consciousness Is A Pitiful Hostage Of Its

Camille Paglia
Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. this is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. microcosm mirrors macrocosm. free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.
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