Nothing Like a Rolls- Not Even a Bentley
Jan 20, 2012
12:42am
What is remembered in the body is well remembered. It is not possible to compel a person to unlearn the riding of a bike, or to take out the knowledge of a song residing in the fingertips, or to undo the memory of antibodies or self-replication without directly entering, altering or injuring the body itself. So, too, the political identity of the body is not easily changed…
- Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (via loyaltytothemetricsystem)
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