body as universe
March 27th, 2011
“Dr. Kathy…believed in the interpenetrating dance of spine, nervous system, spirit, and cosmos as totality—in the universe as an infinite system of neural connections that had evolved, at its highest point, an organism that could sustain consciousness of both itself and the universe at the same time, such that the human nervous system became the universe’s way of being aware of and thus “accessible [to]” itself…”
-from the brilliant short fiction piece “Backbone” by David Foster Wallace in the 12/7/2011 New Yorker.
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