If Professor Jaynes had extended his studies of introspection into zazen or yogic forms of meditation, he would understand that the ego is just such a construction that is extended over the gaps in time from moment to moment.
Even when people are trying to sell you something, their messages seem off-the-cuff, like trustworthy recommendations rather than sponsored shilling.
At Wanhsien, midway through the gorges, a grizzle-haired man, thin as an opium smoker, climbed on board, and was hailed by one of the Brothers with me as Uncle Chu. He was an employee of the Telegraph Company set up in 1907. Cables could now be sent from Szechuan to the outside world. Chu, being a Brother, held no secret from us, and he told us of the projected nationalization of the railways.
And then the whole crew bore chorus:—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
And at the third Ho! drove the bars before them with a will.
