Are Genes Mutable

topics:

• workout goals
• consistency vs progression
• we live in our bodies regardless
• genes are mutable (at the species level)
• greek statues, arthur saxon, modern day fitness influencers
  • the value of eyeballs on workout consistency
• a body to die in (see below)

Specifically, I cherished a romantic impulse towards death, yet at the same time I required a strictly classical body as its vehicle; a peculiar sense of destiny made me believe that the reason why my romantic impulse towards death remained unfulfilled in reality was the immensely simple fact that I lacked the necessary physical qualifications. A powerful, tragic frame and sculpturesque muscles were indispensable in a romantically noble death. Any confrontation between weak, flabby flesh and death seemed to me absurdly inappropriate. Longing at eighteen for an early demise, I felt myself unfitted for it. I lacked, in short, the muscles suitable for a dramatic death. And it deeply offended my romantic pride that it should be this unsuitability that had permitted me to survive the war.

-- Sun and Steel

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