[[Image:Larry Harvey wdydwyd.jpg|thumb|right|Harvey answers, "Why do you do what you do?" with a quote from the book Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad.
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process. Use this quote
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms. Use this quote