"... why are we so horrified and threatened by dead bodies? This should have been the most familiar and mundane programme. We all own one, have lived in it all our lives, and everyone we've ever known is either dead or dying. The revelation of a patella should by rights be greeted with yawns, not gasps. Yet our understanding of our inner lives is so completely divorced from its physical reality, there is nothing of the experience of life to be found underneath in the mechanics of our bodies. Everything that is emotionally, intellectually and metaphysically vital is separate and apart from the meat and offal: we are, in the most profound sense, only skin deep."

Posted by Hg on Monday 31 January 2005 at 06:19.
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