¶ Man as Pattern Integrity
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"… 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."
Barbara, December 1967; quoted by Hugh Kenner in
“The Rope in the Knot,” Kentucky Review, Autumn, 1968.
¶ Citations
- RBF lecturing at University of California, Santa
