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Yet somehow, this process existed in brains
and bodies, subject to their own physiologic imperatives, prone to breaking and failing. There must be a way, I thought, that the language of life as experienced-of passion, of hunger, of love-bore some relationship, however convoluted, to the language of neurons, digestive tracts, and heartbeats.
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and bodies, subject to their own physiologic imperatives, prone to breaking and failing. There must be a way, I thought, that the language of life as experienced-of passion, of hunger, of love-bore some relationship, however convoluted, to the language of neurons, digestive tracts, and heartbeats.
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I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion. A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. It was the relational aspect of humans—ie, "human relationality" —that undergirded meaning.
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“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”
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“Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection”
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