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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 15 Feb \ on: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig BooksAndArticles
The terror of the possibility of being trapped in your own body. To look at your own hands and know that their occupant may not be you.
"And yet strange wisps of his memory suddenly match and fit this road and
desert bluffs and white-hot sand all around us and there is a bizarre
concurrence and then I know he has seen all of this. He was here, otherwise
I would not know it. He had to be. And in seeing these sudden coalescences
of vision and in recall of some strange fragment of thought whose origin I
have no idea of, I'm like a clairvoyant, a spirit medium receiving messages
from another world. That is how it is. I see things with my own eyes, and I
see things with his eyes too. He once owned them.
These EYES! That is the terror of it. These gloved hands I now look at,
steering the motorcycle down the road, were once his! And if you can
understand the feeling that comes from that, then you can understand real
fear...the fear that comes from knowing there is nowhere you can possibly
run."