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Immobility:
"I am averse to the word ‘immobilize’. It belongs to the static norm of Newton’s ‘persistence… in a state of rest.’ This is a way of thinking threatened by relativity and annihilated by contemporary physical science…
“The word ‘immobility’ tends to induce a phobia of imprisonment.”
