![]() He and Crake would also play chess on the computer, and Snowman wonders briefly if he could whittle a chessboard. He remembers computer games they would play: Extinctathon, Three-Dimensional Waco, Barbarian Stomp, and Kwiktime Osama. ![]() Executions were its tragedies, pornography was its romance. Snowman lets his mind wander back to his and Crake ’s afterschool distractions. ![]() Why not cut to the chase?īut the body had its own cultural forms. Sublimation, all of it nothing but sublimation, according to the body. It had dumped the other two back there somewhere, leaving them stranded in some damp sanctuary or stuffy lecture hall while it made a beeline for the topless bars, and it had dumped culture along with them: music and painting and poetry and plays. ![]() it must have got tired of the soul’s constant nagging and whining and the anxiety-driven intellectual web-spinning of the mind, distracting it whenever it was getting its teeth into something juicy or its fingers into something good. “When did the body first set out on its own adventures? Snowman thinks after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind and the soul, for whom it had once been considered a mere corrupt vessel or else a puppet acting out their dramas for them, or else bad company, leading the other two astray. ![]()
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