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Tactile Sequence:
"the supermarket and had to buy your own heart and your own guts and your own lungs and your own kidneys and liver, and so forth, I’m sure most of you people would leave most of it out, and we would not be very attracted to them.
“In order to get this extraordinary complex of regeneration reproducing itself, you have to really skin it in. In a very important kind of a way, you have to make it somehow a very attractive matter-- this warmth here, and so forth, as something very attractive to make them like to get together again. And so the built-in drive to reproduce, to be sure that life is there, is very intimately tied up with the touch part and getting back in the womb, and so forth, that new life will come along then. So it’s very hard for man to separate the physical in his thinking from the tactile or from the really metaphysical. It’s awfully hard for him. I don’t want to give up that something nice in me; that regenerative drive, something that’s fascinating all the time; I really can’t relinquish that and say that man is really, as far as life goes, metaphysical. But so far as I can see, that really is the fact.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul’69
