Most animals have no desire for contrectation. In man the impulse of contrectation is the more important. If the individual practises total abstinence, i. e., if he abstains even from the gratification of the impulse of contrectation, then ...

One spring the National League for Medical Freedom advertised its opposition … to the expenditures of public money for the compulsory examination of school children. … As I have understood these Freedomites the freedom of the family to employ whom they pleased was just what they wanted. … If government modifies the policy to give the Freedomites the freedom asked for, they are agin that.

It is the same: any shock, any blow, any impact, all the metallurgy of the accident can be read in the semiurgy of the body — neither an anatomy nor a physiology, but a semiurgy of contusions, scars, mutilations, wounds that are so many new sexual organs opened in the body.

Business is finally and gradually crept up on with careful avoidance of any implications that the lunch exists specifically to enhance the lunchee's opinions about the lunchor and the lunchor's assessment of the lunchee.