http://www.neoteny.org/2009/11/24/how-special-are-we/ The American Left, Societal Transformation, and Biological Evolution Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.neoteny.org/2009/11/24/how-special-are-we/comment-page-1/#comment-2443 Mark Stairwalt Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:36:12 +0000 http://www.neoteny.org/?p=580#comment-2443 I went looking for the Michael McClure quote below, and found a whole paragraph that introduces it pretty well: "McClure's first book, 'Passage,' was published in 1956. Like Gary Snyder he writes poetry infused with the awareness of nature, but McClure's special interest is in the animal consciousness that too often lies dormant in mankind. He has a consistent message: 'When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.'" I read McClure when I was a little too young to really get what he was about, but that sentence did stick with me. I went looking for the Michael McClure quote below, and found a whole paragraph that introduces it pretty well: “McClure’s first book, ‘Passage,’ was published in 1956. Like Gary Snyder he writes poetry infused with the awareness of nature, but McClure’s special interest is in the animal consciousness that too often lies dormant in mankind. He has a consistent message: ‘When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.’” I read McClure when I was a little too young to really get what he was about, but that sentence did stick with me.

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