I downloaded this from Richard Shusterman’s 1994 paper on “Interpretation, Mind, and Embodiment: a Psychological Inquiry”; It’s referred to in my 2009 post on Body Consciousness , but hasn’t been published here before now.
I find it’s having particular reference to my experience as a person in old age who’s partially disabled and dependent on an array of medicines to keep the bodily parts working more or less as they should. When I sit here at my desk getting deeply involved in organizing my voluminous written works, I forget bodily discomforts; similarly on daily walks, distracted by the combination of sameness and novelty in the sensuous experiences; and often intriguing encounters with strangers or street acquaintances who may turn into friends: I think of Lambros, Hamid, Mohammed Arif and poor Jamie Bolton who’s in jail for begging and possession of a knife. The police have taken severe action on suppliers of drugs with shops on Desb. Rd …