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Don’t count me!
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Literature, Quotation| No Comments » October 14th, 2008 by bornshouterTo paraphrase Sly, who infamously never said ‘Don’t push me‘ in First Blood (he said ‘Don’t push it‘ in various ways)…
Don’t count me!
As a person in a generation that has so many numbers surrounding and defining us(NHS number, National Insurance number, bank account number, annual income amount, number of shares this and that bank …) I fear that those numbers begin to become me.
I feel I need to heed the warnings of those who came before…(here comes Tamkin again…)
The money. They make a killing by fantasy. Now, counting any number is always a sadistic activity. Like Hitting. In the bible, the Jews wouldn’t allow you to count them. They knew it was sadistic.
Dr Tamkin in ‘Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics)
“You are Number Six.”
“I am not a number — I am a free man!”
