[The Jacket (The Star-Rover) by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Jacket (The Star-Rover) CHAPTER I 4/17
." Ah, truly, shades of the prison-house close about us, the new-born things, and all too soon do we forget.
And yet, when we were new-born we did remember other times and places.
We, helpless infants in arms or creeping quadruped-like on the floor, dreamed our dreams of air-flight. Yes; and we endured the torment and torture of nightmare fears of dim and monstrous things.
We new-born infants, without experience, were born with fear, with memory of fear; and _memory is experience_. As for myself, at the beginnings of my vocabulary, at so tender a period that I still made hunger noises and sleep noises, yet even then did I know that I had been a star-rover.
Yes, I, whose lips had never lisped the word "king," remembered that I had once been the son of a king. More--I remembered that once I had been a slave and a son of a slave, and worn an iron collar round my neck. Still more.
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