How the organism maintains itself against death—against thermodynamic equilibrium…
Being an unstable organization of matter, the body threatens to rush away from us. This organism,while it has the power to hold its own form and suck what it needs from its environment, the being of other things which it uses, returning the residue to the world in simpler form. But reluctance to cause pain coupled with the necessity to devour…a peculiar human trick is the result, which consists in admitting and denying evils at the same time. To have a human life and an inhuman life. To bite, to swallow. At the same time to pity your food. To have sentiment. At the same time to behave brutally. It has been suggested (and why not!) that reluctance to cause pain is actually an extreme form, a delicious form of sensuality, and that we increase the luxuries of pain by the injection of a moral pathos. Thus working both sides of the street.
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