Colin Wilson Quotes

Imagine That A Tribe Of Ignorant Natives Find A Motor-car, And Decide That It Makes An Ideal Storage Room For Food. So When They Set Out On A Journey, They Load It With Food, Attach Ropes To It, And Pull It Through The Jungle As If It Was A Cart. One Of Them Fiddling About Inside It, Discovers The Hand Brake And Releases It. Immediately, They Find The Car Much Easier To Pull. They Congratulate The Discoverer, Tell Him He Is A Genius, And Convince Themselves That They Now Know The Purpose And Use Of The Car. This Is How I Feel With My Body. Occasionally, As I Am Dragging It Along, It Accidentally Gets Into Gear; There Is A Roar, And The Engine Starts For A Moment. Then, Just As Quickly, It Cuts Out. But I Know That This Body Is Not Merely Designed For This Boring, Irritating, Two-dimensional Life That So Easily Becomes A Burden To Me.

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