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Chapter 59:- ''Why Not Let It Fade?''
Chapter six of ''Dying Inside'' by Robert Silverberg:
''But why does David Selig want his power to come back? Why not let it fade? It's always been a curse to him, hasn't it? It's cut him off from his fellow men and doomed him to a loveless life. Leave well enough alone, David. Let it fade. Let it fade. On the other hand, without the power, what are you? Without that one flattering unpredictable unsatisfactory means of contact with them, how will you be able to touch them at all? Your power joins you to mankind, far better or far worst, in the only joining you have: you can't bear to surrender it. Admit it. You love it and despise it, this gift of yours. You dread losing it despise all it's done to you. You'll fight to cling to the last shreds of it, even though you know the struggle's hopeless. Fight on, then read Huxley again. Try acid, if you dare. Try flagellation. Try fasting, at least. All right, fasting. I'll slip the chow men. I;ll skip the eggroll. Let's slide a fresh sheet into the type writer and think about Odyseus as a symbol of society.''
- Robert Silverberg.
Chapter six of ''Dying Inside'' by Robert Silverberg:
''But why does David Selig want his power to come back? Why not let it fade? It's always been a curse to him, hasn't it? It's cut him off from his fellow men and doomed him to a loveless life. Leave well enough alone, David. Let it fade. Let it fade. On the other hand, without the power, what are you? Without that one flattering unpredictable unsatisfactory means of contact with them, how will you be able to touch them at all? Your power joins you to mankind, far better or far worst, in the only joining you have: you can't bear to surrender it. Admit it. You love it and despise it, this gift of yours. You dread losing it despise all it's done to you. You'll fight to cling to the last shreds of it, even though you know the struggle's hopeless. Fight on, then read Huxley again. Try acid, if you dare. Try flagellation. Try fasting, at least. All right, fasting. I'll slip the chow men. I;ll skip the eggroll. Let's slide a fresh sheet into the type writer and think about Odyseus as a symbol of society.''
- Robert Silverberg.
