No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use ...
...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.
There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.
It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.
