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Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher

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Is anything in man so deep-rooted and prevalent as the drive to see things as they are not?  What Professor Hawking says here is reasonable, up until the last five words.  That’s where the sky cracks and falls.  Relativity and quantum mechanics may both be mind-bending and baffle the understanding, but no less than when a world-famous mathematical and scientific genius who can do little more than twitch his cheek and move his eyes; who cannot feed, dress, wash, or care for himself in the most rudimentary way; who would, if abandoned next to a stockpile of food and water, starve and eventually die of dehydration where he was left, positioned as he was left, tells us that there are “not that many” things he cannot do. This book is very unusual, partly because I am not even sure what to make of it.  Nietzsche said “Of all that is written I love only what man has written with his blood.”  This book is born of pain.  I wrote it out of compulsion during the most hellish time of my life.  Wri

Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher Untitled Document Two Arms and a Head The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher by Clayton Atreus Forthwith this frame of mine was wrench'd With a woful agony Which forced me to begin my tale And then it left me free - Coleridge Even the bravest rarely have the courage for what they really know. -Nietzsche Preface "I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many." -Stephen Hawking Is anything in man so deep-rooted and prevalent

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