C. S. Lewis quote: ...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no ...

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

~ C. S. Lewis ~

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