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Would cyborgs get married? And whose parts would matter?

I am reading Goldman, Emma. Anarchism, and Other Essays (New York: Dover, 1969). Yesterday I read the essay on marriage. Her statistics about divorce do need to be updated but her conclusions and support for her thesis are still supported by our present day statistics. I found this essay to read in the book because someone had written a note in the book, saying there was a great quote in the essay. I assume this essay was read by the Beatles as it was very pro-love. Also John Lennon read a lot and this would have been available to him or to writers he did read who may have repeated the thesis. I trace my lyric listening personal history thus taking a path of reducing internal monologue as per Carlos Castaneda's lessons from Don Juan.