“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, January 3, 2016

Humankind 2

I found some epigraphs for my Verso book about solidarity with nonhumans. Figure them out : )


Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the inside. I’m—Oh, what is that word? It’s so big. And so complicated. And so sad. (Doctor Who, “The Doctor's Wife”; the word is alive)

Kathy Nightingale: What did you come here for anyway?
Sally Sparrow: I love old things. They make me feel sad.
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people. (Doctor Who, “Blink”)

Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss
Old Fat Furry Catpuss
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring
Wake up, be bright, be golden and light
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing.

And Bagpuss was wide awake
And when Bagpuss wakes up, all his friends wake up too   [hey that also works in Dzogchen :) ]
The mice on the mouse-organ woke up and stretched
Madeleine, the rag doll
Gabriel, the toad
And last of all, Professor Yaffle, who was a very distinguished old woodpecker.
He climbed down off his bookend and went to see what it was that Emily had brought.   (Bagpuss introduction)

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