For to keep from encountering that fiend who dwells in the sweet Kundalini of our spine, so do we take on our booze, our pot, our coke, our nicotine, our tranks and sleeping pills, our habits and our churches, our prejudices and our bigotries, our ideology, our stupidity itself—the most vital of insulations!—and I encountered nearly all of them in the week before I tried to climb the Monument and conquer the unmanageable in myself.
Norman Mailer
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