“I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I'm doing there.” KnowsBodyUsedCrazyPeriodsCompetitionWork OutFamiliarGymBuilderBody Builder Author:Guy Pearce
“The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.” BookDifferentBodyEyeMovingMemoriesAnimalPromiseCreaturesCompetitionComplexesSurfaceNervousBreastsGasMortalityShoreHostJuiceCompoundsSystematicNervous SystemParasitesVisceralDeliriumLapsesInvoluntaryNarratorsMutation Book:The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress Source: The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress
“The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.” BodyExistenceStruggleEvidenceResourcesCompetitionEnvironmentalComplexityOrganismsDarwinismStruggle For Existence Author:Richard Lewontin