prosthetic gods by Jonathan Penton
Winged City Chapbooks
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Prosthetic Gods
Copyright © 2008 Jonathan Penton
Poems Copyright © 2000-2007 Jonathan Penton
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Cover art by Sri Nash Parker
ISBN 13: 978-0-9796956-9-8
Winged City Chapbooks
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To these gods he attributed everything that seemed unattainable to his wishes, or that was forbidden to him. One may say, therefore, that these gods were cultural ideals. Today he has come very close to the attainment of this ideal…Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.
—Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
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