August 17, 2011
- Frank Herbert on “Animals” -
“So who asks: What am I?”
“Dangerous question. Asking it put her in a universe where nothing was quite human. Nothing matched the undefined thing she sought. All around her, clowns, wild animals and puppets reacted to the pull of hidden strings. She sensed the strings that jerked her into action.”
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“Strings. What came with the egg? We speak glibly of ‘the mind at its beginning’. But what was I before the pressures of living shaped me?”
