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A Culture-bearing Book, Like A Mule, Bears The Culture On Its Back. No One Should Sit Down To Write One Deliberately. Culture-bearing Books Appear Almost Accidentally, Like A Sudden Surge In The Stock Market. There Are Books Of High Quality That Are A Part Of The Culture, But That Is Not The Same. They Are A Part Of It. They Aren't Carrying It Anywhere. They May Talk About Insanity Sympathetically, For Example, Because That's The Standard Cultural Attitude. But They Don't Carry Any Suggestion That Insanity Might Be Something Other Than Sickness Or Degeneracy.

The Intelligence Of The Mind Can't Think Of Any Reason To Live, But It Goes On Anyway Because The Intelligence Of The Cells Can't Think Of Any Reason To Die.

When A Shepherd Goes To Kill A Wolf, And Takes His Dog To See The Sport, He Should Take Care To Avoid Mistakes. The Dog Has Certain Relationships To The Wolf The Shepherd May Have Forgotten.

The Mythos-over-logos Argument Points To The Fact That Each Child Is Born As Ignorant As Any Caveman. What Keeps The World From Reverting To The Neandertal With Each Generation Is The Continuing, Ongoing Mythos, Transformed Into Logos But Still Mythos, The Huge Body Of Common Knowledge That Unites Our Minds As Cells Are United In The Body Of Man. To Feel That One Is Not So United, That One Can Accept Or Discard This Mythos As One Pleases, Is Not To Understand What The Mythos Is.

If You Stare At A Wall From Four In The Morning Till Nine At Night And You Do That For A Week, You Are Getting Pretty Close To Nothingness.