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No matter how I tried to get away from it, the fact remained: Cancer is living putrefaction of the tissues due to the pleasure starvation of the organism. That this extremely simple fact had hitherto been overlooked was not along due to inadequate research methods or the traditional errors of biology. I had hit upon it only because I had to be consistent as a sex-economist and had to follow the results of the sexual disturbances no matter where the search was going to lead. What has really prevented this discovery from being made long ago is the prevailing concept of life, the
moralism, the sexual crippling of our children and adolescents, the moralistic prejudices in medicine and education . . . We have outlawed the most important life function, have given it the stamp of sin and crime and have denied it any social protection . . . . We have lost confidence in the natural laws of life and now we have to pay the price for it.
-- Wilhelm Reich, The Cancer Biopathy (1948)
CAN DO
Not, I'll not . . .
. . . most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day comes, not choose not to be.
--"Carrion Comfort," Gerard Manley Hopkins
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