Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

Original Quotation from "Order is Beauty" in The Body Has a Head by Gustav Eckstein:

"Breathing is affected from beyond the body, is affected from within the body, to the end that the body shall always have the exact molecules in the exact quantity. Attempt to change that...Better bow your head and admit you are driven by ancient law. Or, try to deny the law, to convince yourself of the law. Hold your breath. Keep oxygen out, keep carbon dioxide in, use up the one and pile up the other, and though you are firm in your resolve, a next breath will crash through."

constraint- Antonymic translation:

Stasis/suffocation is separate from the internal bodily structure, the origin being that the external will never have the lost, anonymous organs of the undefined quality. Languish in repetition. Best raise your feet and deny we aren't dismissive of modern/contemporary chaos/systems. And, ignore your interest in chaos to remain unsure of it. Inhale. Let carbon dioxide in, keep oxygen out, store down the two, or deplete up the one, and even if you are careless in our apathy, a previous suffocation will not reboot.