Explaining these problems implementing the bodybuilding metaphor would be a supplementary benefit to what I am really trying to impress upon my oblivious training partners. The core of what I seek to convey is something even I have trouble perceiving and profoundly understanding unless I engage this comparison between what I have done to my physical self and what humanity has done to the physical world. This point I grope in the dark for is more subtle, and requires the memory of a self view that has long been discarded. Consulting my least ardent bodybuilding partner, the least committed juicer who lifts and injects simply to be assimilated into something, I would ask him if he remembers what life was like before he worked out. How did it feel to shower, to run, to shave? To rise from bed, foresee the day, and not have the two or three hours of sweating and groaning and flexing and staring at yourself monopolozing the time, energy, and thrill of the day. I have trouble recalling how life was before I became addicted to the sexual accumulation of blood at the site of a workout, before I felt behooved to extend layers of muscle outside of myself