'This is the greatest affirmation of life'

The city holds such indomitable assault upon our sense; sight, sound, smell… but look how it thrives with life! Look how those bodies- all so many of them- they move; they move with you, or they move against you, but- they always move around you. I am no spirit, I am no ghost! I have life, and so you shall not pass through me! And they do not- not even in their multitude do they think to pass through one, many as they are, an unspeaking legion, they stir and breathe in mind with one, as a thriving multiplicity that extends from one thought, much like we, ourselves, with our own thoughts who think alike the others to be moving with volition in our own unconventional and unique way. And as such, we become one with them all...