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NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH NOT TO SEE THE
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"be careful when you remove the bladder, do not let urine spill onto the meat..."
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The seclusion of girls
at puberty is not always as punitive/paranoid as described in Ch.60
of The Golden Bough. It can be a terrifying, cathartic, and mysterious
farewell to childhood. Fiorinda's
night of initiation, in the seclusion of Sage's van, was highly unusual
in that her sponsors were two young men; in other respects it's close
to some magical models. See also (in a spirit of fair play) The
Spiral Path.
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Methodism, not strictly a revolution, more a socially concerned, anti-establishment revival movement, features in Bold As Love as the former allegiance of Aoxomoxoa (whose grandfather is a Minister) and the Heads, notably George Merrick See Luke's funeral, BAL; George's opinion of painkillers, CMOS But it's the hymns, really. |
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"The world changes all the time. Usually we're not aware of it, no more than we're aware of the dancing atoms in a tabletop..." Superstrings, extra dimensions, branes, quantum vacuum fluctuations, dark matter, Higgs field, it's all so many mediaeval epicycles. There is neither one final reality nor many. Inevitably, ironically our best cosmological model may be human consciousness itself, contained and limitless, determined and ever-changing; where we know that the past is is constantly recreated, with updates, by the present (and this is real, it's not a metaphor) =brainstates have to scramble back into life in a new pair of shoes every time we remember something... "If we cannot
find ourself in our world picture -that image of the world which is
the work we do in our brains- it is because the sentient self is
itself the world picture..."
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This feature is dedicated to Jonathan Clements (anime expert, author of The First Emperor, etc). Here's your Empress Wu fantasy Jonathan, as promised. |
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![]() Tu Qiong Bi Xian: When the map is unrolled, the dagger is revealed. The saying refers to a botched assassination attempt on the man who would become Shi Huangdi, but "means" that it's only at the end that we see a person's real character and their true intentions. from A Thousand Pieces Of Gold, Adeline Yen Mah |
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