ماذا يكون عليه الوضع لو اننى كنت حرا ولست عبدا لظروفى؟ - Aldous Huxley

One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where one grew before. Progress.

And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.