BIOLOGICAL
At it's most tangible, a body part can be a seemingly well-defined organ like the liver. Or it can be a spatially challenging network of solid and liquid like the vascular system. Or it can be an invisible assembly, truly as abstract a thing as"traffic" or "democracy" like the immune system, with its lymphocytes and T4 messengers, a miniaturised cryptography machine for encoding and decoding data about invading organisms _Inner Rhythms, Chaos, Games Gleik, 1993
Oxygen Ib Series: Oxidative Stress
GEOLOGICAL
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the materials that went to make me. Time and place have had their say _Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on the Road.
Genesis I, Series: In The Beginning
EVOLUTE
For nineteen years, he said, he had lived like a person in a dream: he looked without seeing, heard without hearing, forgot everything-almost everything. On falling from the horse, he lost consciousness; when he recovered it, the present was almost intolerable it was so rich and bright; the same was true of the most ancient and trivial memories. A little later he realised he was crippled. This fact scarcely interested him. He reasoned (or felt) that immobility was a minimum price to pay. And now his perception and memory were infallible _Jorge Luis Borges, Funes the Memorius, Ficciones_1962
Frozen I, Series: The Edge of Sentience
