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But of a more fundamental order, the quadriplegic's body can no longer speak a "silent language" in the expression of emotions or concepts too elusive for ordinary speech, for the delicate feedback loops between thought and movement have been broken. Proximity, gesture, and body-set have been muted, and the body's ability to articulate thought has been stifled. It is perhaps for this reason that wring has become almost an addiction for me, for in it thought and mind become a system, united in conjunction with the movement of my hands and the responses of the machine. Of even more profound impact on existential states, the thinking activity of the brain cannot be dissolved into motion, and the mind can no longer be lost in an internal dialogue with physical movement. This leaves one adrift in a lonely monologue, an inner soliloquey without rest or surcrease, and often without subject matter. Consciousness is over-taken and devoured in contemplation, meditation, ratiocination, and reflection without end, relieved only by one's remaining movements, and sleep.

Robert F. Murphy, The Body Silent, 101-102