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“L'homme, même physique, ne se limite pas à son organisme. L'homme ayant prolongé ses organes par des outils, ne voit dans son corps que le moyen de tous les moyens d'actions possibles. C'est donc au-delà du corps qu'il faut regarder pour apprécier ce qui est normal ou pathologique pour ce corps même. Avec une infirmité comme l'astigmatisme ou la myopie on serait normal dans une société agricole ou pastorale, mais on est anormal dans la marine ou dans l'aviation. Donc on ne comprend bien comment, dans les milieux propres à l'homme, le même homme se trouve à des moments différents normal ou anormal, ayant les mêmes organes, que si l'on comprend comment la vitalité organique s'épanouit chez l'homme en plasticité technique et en avidité de domination du milieu.”

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Book:The Normal and the Pathological
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“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style.”

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Book:Jitterbug Perfume
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“Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. They're very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas." He edged the float and its passenger a foot closer to the horizon. "Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. Can't fit through the door.”

A Perfect Day For Bananafish
Book:Nine Stories
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