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Short Nonfiction Collections - Book 1

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The Same Old Animal Man Smeared Over It

The man who walks in his sleep ignores the flesh and all its wonderful play of muscle, joint, and nerve. He feels that there is something Godlike and the mysterious deeps of his being denies his relationship with the brood. As he succeeds, his son-ambulism grows more profound than anything Plato or Aristotle could ever have predicted. The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice compounded. Some men are remarkably constituted in this matter of self-deception. They excel at deceiving themselves, they believe, and they help others to believe,. it becomes their function in society. It's not necessary to call him a liar to touch his vanity.

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