“It was making me a little queasy. Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.”

—  Joe Haldeman, book The Forever War

Source: The Forever War (1974), Chapter 20 (p. 108)

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