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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

— Diane Ackerman A Natural History of the Senses (1990)

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But, as sages have long said, the sexiest part of the body and the best aphrodisiac in the world is the imagination.

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My muse is male, has the silvery complexion of the moon, and never speaks to me directly.

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Consciousness, the great poem of matter, seems so unlikely, so impossible, and yet here we are with our loneliness and our giant dreams.

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