complex load paths

by Dennis Scharnberg

“I do not own myself,” said Thomas.  And he could not help wondering who, or what, did own him.  The Creator?  The society?  The family?  “The existentialist says that we do–or can—own ourselves.  Thoroughly.  Completely.  But he makes this claim in a language that he does not own.”

Charles Jeffrey Yett,  Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.