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Chameleon: Being the Book of My Selves

Benjamin De Casseres

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Description:1922 edition. Excerpt: ... THE INTANGIBLE LIFE IFE is a manifestation of uncon scious ideas, a flowerlike exfolia -*-- tion from an unseen, unknown within to a visible, known without, of which death is the rim. The mind, the earlier mind, of man, half opened, as a flower just before dawn, beholding, fearing, this rim--this almost tangible cessation of the activities of the beloved body--reacts upon itself in thought, seeking blindly for something of the infinite beyond matter; dreaming thus of gaining for mental, spiritual intensity what so soon must be lost in space and time; asking, as it were, a concession from Fate by a steady withdrawal from participation in her more obvious empire, the external world. So is the dream born; and from the unmapped territories in the atoms in the brain there springs a being within a being--the imaginative-prophetic soul, forerunner of the Intangible Life, the subverter and sapper of the external world, a thing that shall function in the limitless. To beings so elected--few and unique among those who live literally, the mudworms--the nearest thing is the remotest thing. They are never quite socketted in their environment, never quite come into contact with their own bodies. Extension, encounter and impact of bodily things are not true for them. They stand with one hand upon the door-bolt, about to go forth from their enchanted souls into the grooves of practical life; but they never make the motion that is decisive. Merely they stand there to listen apperceptively, or they peer through the knot-hole of sense at the elaborate rituals of buffoonery. Standing farther away from life, they stand nearer to that which gives life; moving not anywhere, they are everywhere. They are never real in the sense that a wall is real, being at...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chameleon: Being the Book of My Selves. To get started finding Chameleon: Being the Book of My Selves, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 221

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Publisher: New York: Lieber & Lewis

Release: 1922

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Description: 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... THE INTANGIBLE LIFE IFE is a manifestation of uncon scious ideas, a flowerlike exfolia -*-- tion from an unseen, unknown within to a visible, known without, of which death is the rim. The mind, the earlier mind, of man, half opened, as a flower just before dawn, beholding, fearing, this rim--this almost tangible cessation of the activities of the beloved body--reacts upon itself in thought, seeking blindly for something of the infinite beyond matter; dreaming thus of gaining for mental, spiritual intensity what so soon must be lost in space and time; asking, as it were, a concession from Fate by a steady withdrawal from participation in her more obvious empire, the external world. So is the dream born; and from the unmapped territories in the atoms in the brain there springs a being within a being--the imaginative-prophetic soul, forerunner of the Intangible Life, the subverter and sapper of the external world, a thing that shall function in the limitless. To beings so elected--few and unique among those who live literally, the mudworms--the nearest thing is the remotest thing. They are never quite socketted in their environment, never quite come into contact with their own bodies. Extension, encounter and impact of bodily things are not true for them. They stand with one hand upon the door-bolt, about to go forth from their enchanted souls into the grooves of practical life; but they never make the motion that is decisive. Merely they stand there to listen apperceptively, or they peer through the knot-hole of sense at the elaborate rituals of buffoonery. Standing farther away from life, they stand nearer to that which gives life; moving not anywhere, they are everywhere. They are never real in the sense that a wall is real, being at...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chameleon: Being the Book of My Selves. To get started finding Chameleon: Being the Book of My Selves, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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