Harems. Thoth. Barque. Communication. Speed. Time.
don't worry, be "Hapy".
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'He who cuts off the face of him who cuts off your face' |
Moses and his army conquer the Ethiopian seraphim with baskets filled with ibis. Orange is the color of the ibis.
. . . Language is not just one function among many
. . . but an all-pervasive characteristic of the individual.
Language permits us to deal with things at a distance,
to act on them without physically handling them . . . [to]
manipulate symbols in ways impossible with the things
they stand for . . . [to] verbally rearrange situations
which in themselves would resist rearrangement . . . [to]
isolate features which in fact cannot be isolated . . . [to]
juxtapose objects and events far separated in time and
space . . . [to] turn the universe symbolically inside out.
[l]anguage transforms experience. . . . Through language
. . . [he] can [be] induct[ed] . . . into a purely symbolic realm
of past and future, of remote places, of ideal relationships,
of hypothetical events, of imaginative literature, of imagin-
ary entities ranging from werewolves to pi-mesons.
(ibid, p. 43) Joseph Church