“For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything. Nothing is alien to him. But what I’ve done, he thought; that’s become alien to me. In fact everything has become unnatural; I’ve become an unnatural self.”

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 21 (p. 230)

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