They're disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way.

And when the arm disappears, the bonus is, the pain disappears because you can't have disembodied pain floating out there, in space.

A lot of people think about the new economy as something that was going to be a disembodied, alternative, virtual existence, and that we would have the old economy of atoms.

Not many delegates here in Geneva, even from the nuclear armed states, would disagree with any of these assessments. But it is extraordinary how much of the disembodied calculus of my Woody Allen lookalike still prevails in today s nuclear policymaking.

The great British novelist Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski to Polish parents in Russian ruled Ukraine, said that words are the biggest enemy of reality. The appeal of national identity must not be turned into a collective smokescreen behind which inclusion becomes a disembodied dream coexisting with the communitarianism that is now emerging from its failure.

In this season of love and family, the loneliness of a prison cell is almost unbearable. The gray, dead silence of night (guards peer in voyeuristically through a slot in the door), the sudden, disembodied shrieks of prisoners, shrieks of distress and rage, the distant rattles and clangs of prison bolts all make sleep impossible, or so restless as to be a torment.