“When a castaway collapses from hunger and thirst it is fear of physical want rather than a real want, they say. Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.”
— Kóbó Abe, book The Woman in the Dunes
Part 2, Ch. 18
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)
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