Crab Nebula - pg. 111

Take this hypothesis for what it's worth -- coming from Crab, it should inspire prudence -- but, true or false, we must agree with him that it has at least some basis in truth: Given the fact that it is possible to juxtapose anything with its opposite and thus to arrive at a definition by antithesis -- good as opposed to evil, death as opposed to birth -- should there not exist, in opposition to suicide, something like a deliberate and spontaneous self-generation? A diffuse, floating consciousness, a vague little soul, furtive as a cold draft, which might suddenly decide to incarnate itself, to take shape, to come into the world? This would finally explain why certain men seem so happy to be alive, so thoroughly at ease: they came into existence by choice. They chose the time and place. They gave themselves every advantage.