Man as Pattern Integrity

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"... 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.

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