¶ Knot
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Knot:
“… The metabolic flow that passes through a man and is not the man: some hundred tons of solids, liquids and gases serving to render a single man corporeal during the 70 years he persists, a pattern integrity, a knot through which pass the swift strands of simultaneous ecological cycles, recycling transformations of solar energy. At any given moment the knotted materials weigh perhaps 160 pounds.”
Cite RBF lecturing at University of California, Santa Barbara, December 1967; quoted by Hugh Kenner in “The Rope in the Knot,” Kentucky Review, Autumn 1968.
