Like all of us in this world, I am two men: a self and a non-self. Only by being non-selves can we…

hayaomiyazaki:

Like all of us in this world, I am two men: a self and a non-self. Only by being non-selves can we now survive in our own mortal shrouds we weave around us. And what shall this survival profit us in this day of the mask, in this day of corporation men? What shall the self do then, poor thing, but curl away in from the poisoning wind — and dream? Dream of some Second Coming man himself must bring about, through some vast disobedience and new resurrection?

Penda’s Fen — 1974 dir. Alan Clarke BBC Play for Today | S04E16