In the computer game,
Alpha Centauri, one of the computer "villains", the leader of the Mind-Hive faction, is this ascetic looking oriental guy. At one stage of the game, he says,
"Pain? What do I care for your agony and suffering? Pain is just data input. Become master of the input, and you become master of the output."
That little speech always gives me chills up my spine. But, as I was going through therapy between November and January, that speech went through my mind over and over again. As the therapists were stretching my arm up, past the point where it wanted to go, pulling at rebuilt tendons and tearing muscle adhesions.
I whimpered. Tears trickled down my cheek. "...
become master of the input... become master of the input...", repeated endlessly in my mind.
And then, of course, my arm fell off.
Easy come, easy go.
