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# Man Shaped Block
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/man-shaped-block/
- Published: 2026-04-09T21:02:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-09T21:04:09.000Z
- Description: bag of blood and corruption
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: on having no head - harding, creative-coding

> What is it really like (I ask myself) where I am, now? Am I shut up in what Marcus Aurelius called this **bag of blood and corruption** (and what we might call this **walking zoo**, or cell-city, or chemical factory, or cloud of particles), or am I shut out of it? **Do I spend my life embedded inside a solid, man-shaped block (roughly six feet by two by one),** or outside that block, or perhaps both inside and outside it? The fact is: things aren’t like that at all. **There are no obstructions here**, no inside or outside, no room or lack of room, no hiding place or shelter: I can find no home here to live in or to be locked out of, and not an inch of ground to build it on. But **this homelessness suits me perfectly** \- a void needs no housing. In short, this physical order of things, so solid-looking in appearance and at a distance, is always soluble without residue on really close inspection. And I find this is true, not only of my human body, but of my total Body, the universe itself.