Anthony Burgess--The Wanting Seed and Nalo Hopkinson--The Salt Eaters
-- I will close my eyes,my ears, and shut out all my senses. I will even wipe out from my thoughts all images of material things, or at least since this hardly can be accomplished, I will consider them false and vain; and thus occupying myself with my inner self, I will try to make myself even better acquainted and more familiar with myself. I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, that doubts, affirms, denies, that knows things, is ignorant of many, likes, loves, hates, who wills, who does not will, has also imagination and feeling...Descartes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]