ABSTRACT
Thinking might be interpreted as a turn of tasting in new directions by way of our other senses, especially sight, sound and smell. These continue to make our mouths water, for “good taste. The personal histories of the best remembered and most celebrated can be imagined as impersonal sequences of intake and output; and what remains of any is depersonalized residue, the less perishable excrementa of living and working which survive him. The achievement of globality is conditioned by the unalienability of freedom. On the record, the achievement is the dynamic consequence of choice after choice, decision after decision. Metaphorically, creativity identified as catharsis is excretion: our products of art and science are excrementa, residues of a process of intake and output the digestive organs of which are our laboratories, our studios, our schools, our factories, and our stores and shops. Images of determination range from the theological to the naturalistic, from the naturalistic to the humanist.
