004946

“To see creatures or plants as mere examplars of a category renders them disposable in that it deprives them of being understood as localized exemplars of everything there is… but especially… of fundamental relationships which are in fact older than...

004948

“Reambiguization is a term I coined to denote an act which is made in response to both felt senses and conscious awareness of the fact that most of our representational activities and habits are self-authorizing and deceptive in their derivations. I speak here...

004952

“I had entered accidentally into transference with an object; so that any threat or damage to that object was feared and experienced as if the object were my soul. Discovering this was a revelation… because I had been doing this unconsciously throughout my...

004953

“We are, many of us, exceptionally sensitive to ‘that which we will take into our mouths’, with the often substantial caveat of habit: we are inclined toward that which is familiar, whether we speak of one who smokes tobacco, drinks alcohol, or...

004954

“… with a great and harrowing dive, one that must surely end in death upon the stony earth. But at its nadir, the creature spread its wings, and was thus »lifted by its lethal angle and velocity. And rose then, to see with the sun and the sky themselves,...

004962

“I’m like a man on the freeway in a rowboat, trying to get to the river. Or a guy who drives his jeep into the ocean, and then wonders why it fills with water as the engine seizes. I can see all of this in a kind of mirror inside me, but when I am seeing...