Sunday, September 7, 2008

How far we have removed ourselves from nature...

What I’m trying to get at here is that I’m not sure any of us knows just how far we have removed ourselves not only from nature but from the natural conditions of life that have prevailed for centuries and have forced men to the extreme limits of their physical capacity in order simply to feed, clothe, and otherwise provide for their families, sending them every night to a sweet, exhausted, restorative, unstirred, deserved sleep such as we will never know again.
- Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End, 38

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