Monday, June 28, 2004

My Rewritten Books. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

He wanted his whole body to obey simple automatisms, as it happens to smaller parts of the body: as when the mouth yawns, cold raises goosebumps in the skin, hairs on the back of the neck stand on end with fear, the stomach rumbles with hunger, the retina dilates or contracts to adjust to light… the greater body knots such as the head, the trunk, the members, are all too deeply immersed in reason.
He wanted to strip off of reason, to free his body of the intellect to become only body, pure body automatisms: his drive, as powerful and occult as the riptide, was to become Hyde

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