From 'An American English Teacher in Ostrava':
"As Freud had identified mushroom mycelium with the unconscious, so I’d come to think of the mistletoe as logos, that divine parasite, that golden crown that falls from heaven and battens on the human condition. I don’t mean the word parasite disparagingly. After all, it is logos which raises us up from the ranks of the animals, divides our labors, builds our cities, writes our laws and establishes our kingdom upon the earth. But to raise up kings is to make slaves in their shadows. Scribes are prone to prejudice and error. And to write a law is to carve out the space for its transgression. So this thing, this creative vampire, is also the author and form of our original sin (which was to know). That’s why it’s gotten such a bad name...."
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