The Politics Of Surprise Leads Through The

There Are Almost No Limits To The Discoveries Of How The Human Brain Operates In Illness And Health, In Sleep And Waking And Dreaming, In Calm And Under Tension. The Question Is How Far Man Can Put These Discoveries To Use Without Using Them Not For Cure But For Power.

We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.

It Is Almost As Easy To Be Enervated By Triumph As By Defeat.

The Crime Of Book Purging Is That It Involves A Rejection Of The Word. For The Word Is Never Absolute Truth, But Only Man's Frail And Human Effort To Approach The Truth. To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.

America Shudders At Anything Alien, And When It Wants To Shut Its Mind Against Any Man's Ideas It Calls Him A Foreigner.