Metabolic Flow
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Metabolic Flow:
". . . The metabolic flow that passes through a man and
is not the man: some hundred tons of solids, liquids
and gases serving to render a single man corporeal during
the 70 years he persists, a pattern integrity, a knot
through which pass the swift strands of simultaneous
ecological cycles, recycling transformations of solar
energy. At any given moment the knotted materials weigh
perhaps 160 pounds."
Barbara, December 1967; quoted by Hugh Kenner in
"The Rope-in-the knot," Kentucky Review, Autumn 1968.
Citations
- Knot, Dec'67
- RBF lecture at University of California, Santa
