The essence of Warhol's genius was to eliminate the one aspect of a thing without which that thing would, to conventional ways of thinking, cease to be itself, and then to see what happened.
In the 19th century, this strand of Enlightenment thinking ceased to be an important part of the philosophical agenda.
Not only has my suicidal thinking ceased, my ability to stay awake after dark, and even though I still have restless sleep, I wake up with a desire to get out of bed, and my pain has decreased.
When my thinking ceased to be clouded by the immediate shock and resentment, I saw that possibly being infertile doesn't mean I can't be a mother and that not being a mother doesn't make me any less of a woman.
After two hours of this hell, I accepted my grim fate when suddenly my thinking mind ceased its mindless chatter and was replaced with what I assumed to be my soul or some kind of twisted angel.
Finally he ceased thinking about it".
But America should drop the Dulles mentality for the '70s and the '50s and cease thinking of "bases".
Too bad it gave so much space to someone who ceased thinking about it sometime during the Ford administration.
"Cocooned by our big brother," says an Abe adviser, "the Japanese ceased thinking strategically about their own future".Another consequence a domestic politics that is unresponsive to people's wishes is nowhere more evident than in the fate of Okinawa.
And sometimes impossible to overcome, too, was the idea that Shurvon's life might not be worth living; that I, in his place, would rather stop breathing, cease thinking, that I would prefer to die.
