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Into the Body
Homo stasis
Suicides
Prove the
Equation
Of the
Zero feared
With the
Zero craved.
Deciphering the title solves the equation. Homeostasis, source of
this groaning pun, is the state of rest toward which all organisms
regulate and equilibrate their internal functions and external affairs.
The death wish, a normally dormant section of cerebral circuitry,
can, Gluckman appears to believe, under stress become confused
with the life wish for cybernetic balance. Then suicide makes sense:
the two cessations of movement merge into one, as a negative and a
positive cancel each other out.
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