“Here, do me a favour. To sharpen your understanding, try this: well all the spit inside your mouth—now swallow.
Now do it again.
Now, again—don’t waste time, just swallow whatever saliva is in there. Four, five times is kind of annoying, but regulate that to a hundred—a thousand? For days on end—weeks, months? Now can you see exactly what I mean when I say the body doesn’t need much to simultaneously turn itself into your oppressor— into the site of your oppression?”