Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Metamorphosed

Just a random thought, nothing more:

If Kafka's psychological continuity is not counterintuitive- it isn't, is it?
Then human cloning is not so bad, apparently.
For if mind makes man, then who would mind a Mahatma Gandhi who looks like a Brad Pitt, speaks like a Churchill, waxes oh so eloquently like a Shakespeare, and yet thinks like himself.

And when he dies, he wakes up as a beetle.

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