But you, Sinclair, you can pull it off. And how, I ask? I suppose you don’t know yet. You do it by using a new organ, a breath regulator. And now you can see that your soul, deep down, isn’t all that ‘personal.’ Because you didn’t invent that regulator! It’s not new! It’s a loan, it has existed for millennia. It’s the organ of equilibrium that fish have, the air bladder. And in fact there are still a few rare, conservative species of fish extant today in which the air bladder is also a kind of lung and under certain conditions can actually be used for breathing. So they’re precisely like the
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