The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantl... - Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

"The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do."

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