The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

Sourced, number9dream (2001)

Part 6

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I have always preferred maps to books. They don’t answer you back. - View Quote Details on I have always preferred maps to books. They don’t answer…
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I hear my father-in-law’s response…”Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!” Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops? - View Quote Details on I hear my father-in-law’s response…”Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would…
The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken. - View Quote Details on The most malicious god is the god of the counted…
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn’t have that smell. - View Quote Details on What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find…
One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself… In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. - View Quote Details on One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself……
Yay, Old’uns’ Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an’ made miracles ord’nary, but it din’t master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o’ humans, yay, a hunger for more. - View Quote Details on Yay, Old’uns’ Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an’ made miracles…
Ghostwritten ’s secret agenda is to offer up eight different answers to the question, “Why do things happen?” so it has the right to monkey about with time and history. number9dreams ’s secret agenda is to offer eight different answers to the question, “In what space does the mind operate?” - View Quote Details on Ghostwritten ’s secret agenda is to offer up eight different…