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Because of the hair of the head, and because of the hair of the body, and because of the nails, and because of the teeth, and because of the skin, and because of the flesh, and because of the sinews and because of the bones, and because of the marrow of the bones, and because of the kidneys, and because of the heart, and because of the liver, and because of the peritoneum, and because of the spleen, and because of the lungs, and because of the intestines, and because of the mesentery, and because of the stomach, and because of the faeces, and because of the bile, and because of the phlegm, and because of the pus, and because of the blood, and because of the sweat, and because of the fat, and because of the tears, and because of the serum, and because of the saliva, and because of the mucus of the nose, and because of the synovial fluid, and because of the urine, and because of the grey matter in the skull,-and because of Form, and because of Sensation, and because of Perception, and because of the States of Mind, and because of Consciousness, -because of all these, there comes into use the epithet, designation, appellation, style, name,-but name only,-’James.’
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits… A flippant person has asked why we say, “As mad as a hatter.” A more flippant person might answer that a hatter is mad because he has to measure the human head.
-G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
…all this stuff is a grand illusion
-Dr. Susan Blackmore
