“Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the universal music, and presently vanish, giving place to others. All this age-long sequence of private living, which is the actual tissue of humanity's flesh, I cannot describe. I can only trace, as it were, the disembodied form of its growth.” GivingHeartLongI CanAgeFormHumanityIndividualGrowthUniqueUniversalFleshSequencePulseIntercourseTissuesOlaf Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels
“This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.” FirstsKindAbleDesireDifficultRealizingMy OwnSecretSpecialParticularIndividualityPainfulCriticalWanderInternalsHostIntercourseAccuracyVolitionVividness Book:Star Maker Source: Star Maker
“In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.” MenSocialProcessDogSpeciesSignificanceOrganismsFluidIntercourseAbsorbingCanine Book:An Olaf Stapledon Reader Source: An Olaf Stapledon Reader
