to sterilize the microbes of emotion

"To Sterilize the Microbes of Emotion," April 6, 2022 (#96)

title from introduction to George Orwell's Animal Farm by C.M. Woodhouse (1954)

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman (2011)

The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York by Mat Johnson (2007)

The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí by Salvador Dalí (1942)

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2001)

last line from Dream Stuff: Stories by David Malouf (2000)

To Sterilize the Microbes of Emotion

It is not only vision and hearing that are constructions of the

external forces or internal. It was also a well-known fact

I stand in the dark hallway glued to one spot–dressed in my kingly

deep worry. I had no plan, no prospects of a plan. Until now I'd mostly

be labeled automatic, implicit, heuristic, intuitive, holistic, reactive.

Add to this equation for chaos the difficult financial straits of most

blocks of poor unlighted streets to be right out in the country,

all the way from the uncapping knife to the bottling tank.


Consider the concept of a secret. The main thing known about

beseeching them, making compromises to appease a court whose

faces each time I burst out laughing only aggravated the intensity of,

it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts

to ham-handedly acknowledge this. And the United States

were indignant, generally confused. How could these black

olives he went on his pilgrimage to find money to lend us

set up the card tables beside the myrtle trees so the streamers

grinned and hunched into himself but did not pull away?

From here.

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Don McLean's American Pie (1971)

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