The Iliad, or the Poem of Force | Episode XXI
New Humanists
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The Humanization of the Agent of Force
The idea of a person's being a thing is the logical contradiction that what is impossible in logic becomes true in life. And the contradiction lodged within the soul tears it to shreds. This thing is constantly aspiring to be a man, a woman, and never achieving it. Here, surely is death, but death strung out over a whole lifetime. There are other more unfortunate creatures who have become things for the rest of their lives. Their days hold no pastimes, no free spaces, no room in them for any impulse of their own. They are another human species, a compromise between a man and a cort.
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