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“…I swooned, under the impact of the ethical corollary.
—What is the ethical corollary?
—More.
—When you swooned, did you fall?
—I swooned upward.”

“
— The body knows.
— The body is perspicacious.
— The body ain't dumb.
— Words can't say what the body knows.
“

“Had I had the black hat with me, and sufficient men and horses and lariats and .3o-3os, and popular support from the masses and a workable revolutionary ideology and/or a viable myth pattern, I would have rescued them.”

“And they said, is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life. Then they said, but isn't death, considered as a fundamental datum, the means by which the taken-for-granted mundanity of the everyday may be transcended in the direction of—
I said, yes, maybe.”

“You got to let him play his goddamn bongo drums if he feels like it, it’s part of the misery of democracy, to which I subscribe.”

“I thought, What a nice little city, it suits me fine.
It suited me fine so I started to change it. But softly, softly. I asked some folks to move out of a whole city block on I Street, and then I tore down their houses.”