"Your Outboard Brain Knows All", Wired, 25 September 2007
“I cannot be contained in brains, in names, in deeds!”
—
Nikos Kazantzakis
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book
The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Amidst our greatest happiness someone within us cries out: "I am in pain! I want to escape your happiness! I am stifling!"
Amidst our deepest despair someone within us cries out: "I do not despair! I fight on! I grasp at your head, I unsheathe myself from your body, I detach myself from the earth, I cannot be contained in brains, in names, in deeds!"
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