
As ideas go, The Body just grows and grows, ramifying in every conceivable direction. There’s birth and death, gender and race, masculine / feminine, illness and health. There’s mind and body—now that’s a problem from way back, would make a great novel (and has!)—and body and soul. There’s dance and there’s sport. There’s the Body Perfect, and then the Norm, and then outside or beyond the norm—but who’s to say what’s one and what’s the other? Seminal and semen, cerebral and cereal, genius and genes. Conception: quite the concept! Don’t get us started. But do explore with us.
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