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MAN Don't blame me if you find the taste of your brother's brains and blood and guts dis- or minus-gusting. The priests of Ur, the tomb robbers, are your religious and scientific forebears.
BION I do blame you.
MAN So I gather. You postpone the day of reckoning till man is strong enough – as you think – to carry the load of guilt; and then when the day of reckoning threatens to dawn you cheat again by robbing your forebears. ‘They’, you say, ‘did not know any better’. You, I say, did not know, still do not know, any better. Never will, in the future, ‘know any better’. Back to thy punishment, false fugitive from the domains of ultra- and infra-sensuous non-existence! Fawn upon, nuzzle the bloody corpse of your cannibal feast. Stand up! Be erect! Oh great and fallacious Phallus! You deal with feelings of guilt by deception. In the domain of real thinking it is possible to find an approximation which contributes to the illusion of omnipotence. Real thinking can approximate to thoughts which at the same moment seem to be those of the innocent child, the responsible adult, the depressed, devouring glutton, the depressed, devouring but unsatiated being of any age and clime. The variables are legion. The basic matrix is the ability to change. For instance, you can think, or imagine, or intuit – take your choice – that you are a civilized human being; ‘homo’, as we say in our quaint scientific language, ‘sapiens’. As you have demonstrated, you can feel (think, imagine, intuit – as I said, take your choice) you are the wild animal nuzzling, fawning upon, mourning its victim on which it preys. You may easily feel you are preyed upon. You have a wide choice, a choice which seems to include a great number of possibilities including combinations of thoughts and feelings in great profusion of varieties and degrees of
variety. One of your kind – there are many more than are able to make their existence obtrude on other similar entities – described it in verbal transformations of