“Dolphins read each other’s emotions by sonar and it’s the inside of the body, the configuration of the viscera, that lets dolphins know whether the dolphin they are meeting is tense or happy. Their emotions are much more connected with the insides of each other’s bodies. We don’t have that. It’s like denying 90% of what we are physically, not knowing it.”

—  David Cronenberg

Bomb Magazine http://bombmagazine.org/article/1160/david-cronenberg, Bette Gordon.

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