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This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. the death of the body is to that, i think, a little thing.

-Winifred Holtby

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This Alone Is To Be Feared -

Winifred Holtby

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. the death of the body is to that, i think, a little thing.

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What orwell feared were those who would ban books. what huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

We imagined ourselves as the sons of liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. we feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. we feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. you have to make the mind run the body. never let the body tell the mind what to do. the body will always give up. it is always tired morning, noon, and night. but the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. when you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... you've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.for, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the rue de la chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. a house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. this wall hears, sees and will not. it might open and save you. no. this wall is a judge. it gazes at you and condemns you. what dismal things are closed houses.

You have to stand up and be a human. you have to honor the man or woman that you are. respect your body, enjoy your body, love your body, feed, clean, and heal your body. exercise and do what makes your body feel good. this is a puja to your body, and that is a communion between you and god. . . . when you practice giving love to every part of your body, you plant seeds of love in your mind, and when they grow, you will love, honor, and respect your body immensely.

Someone's killed 100,000 people. we're almost going, "well done! you killed 100,000 people? you must get up very early in the morning! i can't even get down the gym. your diary must look odd: 'get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

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