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| 11 | 366 | If the traveler was too View more quotes about short">short for the bed, he would disjoint and break their bodies until they fitted it; if they were too long for the bed, he would cut their feet from them, until they, again, fitted the bed. |
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| 11 | 363 | Must it be human beings who must be wrong? Perhaps it is, rather, those sociological imperatives which have, gradually, over the centuries, diverged from their original instrumentalities to follow their own disconnected and remote trajectories. |
| 11 | 364 | In ancient Attica it is said there was a giant, Procrustes. |
| 11 | 365 | He would seize upon travelers and tie them upon an iron bed. |
| 11 | 366 | If the traveler was too short for the bed, he would disjoint and break their bodies until they fitted it; if they were too long for the bed, he would cut their feet from them, until they, again, fitted the bed. |
| 11 | 367 | Perhaps the bed of Procrustes is the truth and men must be broken or cut to pieces that they may fit it. |
| 11 | 368 | On the other hand, clearly there is an alternative, although Procrustes seemed not to have heard of it. |
| 11 | 369 | The bed could be made to fit the guest. |