“To be alive is to be a living soul.  An animal – and we are all animals – is an embodied soul (psyche).”  

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Quotation from J.M. Coetzee’s metafictional novella exploring animal rights and human morality through the lectures of Elizabeth Costello, Coetzee’s fictional alter ego. Published by Princeton University Press in 1999, this fable was presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Centre for human values at Princeton University.

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