We generally do not see the body as a ball and chain because we associate part of who we are with it and only know of existence through it, but it takes no more than a sick stomach or migraine to realize just how heavy this corporeal weight is, how stricken and limited by it we are. We are stuck inside the body, captives to it, subject to its faulty and fragile mechanisms that do and will break, keeping us bound in space according to its condition—until it finally turns itself off, and us with it. And what’s more, our body controls much of what we choose to do with it—how we move it, where we
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