A proper body’s not an object, not an implement, not a belonging to be admired, it’s just you, yourself. Only when it’s no longer you, but yours, a thing owned, do you worry about it –Is it in good shape? Will it do? Will it last?

Frederik Pohl, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (eds.), Galaxy, thirty years of innovative science fiction, New York, 1974