"The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must... recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us."
- Max Weber, quoted in David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity
"Perhaps part of the reason a more sophisticated sociological analysis [of PMS symptoms in the workplace] is not done is that those who comment on and minister to these women do not see that the women's mental and physical state gives them trouble only given a particular kind of industrialized society. For these observers it is the women who malfunction and must have their hormonal imbalances fixed, not the organization of society and work that might be transformed so that it could demand less constant discipline and productivity."
- Emily Martin, Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation
In addition to the frequent use of the Spanish term sol ("sun"), the most common name for the sun in Misminay is inti. These two terms, sol and inti, are used in most day-to-day contexts. However, I also heard the following names used on various occasions: Nuestros Dios ("our Lord"), Otuno ("autumn"), Taytacha (Jesus Christ and "[male] saint"), and Huayna Capac (the eleventh Inca king"
- Gary Urton, At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology
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That's what I'm reading tonight. Urton's book is for a paper I'm writing, and I'm reading the other two because they're really awesome.
I'm not sure if that girl and I were dating, as we had carefully avoided discussion of our relationship until yesterday, but, whatever we were doing, we quit doing it this Wednesday at noon. It turned out to be the best possible time and weather to end even a short relationship, and we lay around under a tree after our opening statements had been completed, leisurely negotiating for the rest of the afternoon.
(A note for those who aren't used to my speech patterns: when I use legal sounding words to describe interpersonal communication, I am joking. Also, when I use more than two commas in a sentence, I'm making my thoughts more complex as a parody of late 19th/early 20th century writers. And, if I write a paragraph with several long sentences followed by a short one, I am more concerned about the audio flow of the paragraph than its actual content. I talk almost the exact same way that I write, though you usually won't get more than a sentence out of me at a time in real life.)
- Max Weber, quoted in David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity
"Perhaps part of the reason a more sophisticated sociological analysis [of PMS symptoms in the workplace] is not done is that those who comment on and minister to these women do not see that the women's mental and physical state gives them trouble only given a particular kind of industrialized society. For these observers it is the women who malfunction and must have their hormonal imbalances fixed, not the organization of society and work that might be transformed so that it could demand less constant discipline and productivity."
- Emily Martin, Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation
In addition to the frequent use of the Spanish term sol ("sun"), the most common name for the sun in Misminay is inti. These two terms, sol and inti, are used in most day-to-day contexts. However, I also heard the following names used on various occasions: Nuestros Dios ("our Lord"), Otuno ("autumn"), Taytacha (Jesus Christ and "[male] saint"), and Huayna Capac (the eleventh Inca king"
- Gary Urton, At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology
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That's what I'm reading tonight. Urton's book is for a paper I'm writing, and I'm reading the other two because they're really awesome.
I'm not sure if that girl and I were dating, as we had carefully avoided discussion of our relationship until yesterday, but, whatever we were doing, we quit doing it this Wednesday at noon. It turned out to be the best possible time and weather to end even a short relationship, and we lay around under a tree after our opening statements had been completed, leisurely negotiating for the rest of the afternoon.
(A note for those who aren't used to my speech patterns: when I use legal sounding words to describe interpersonal communication, I am joking. Also, when I use more than two commas in a sentence, I'm making my thoughts more complex as a parody of late 19th/early 20th century writers. And, if I write a paragraph with several long sentences followed by a short one, I am more concerned about the audio flow of the paragraph than its actual content. I talk almost the exact same way that I write, though you usually won't get more than a sentence out of me at a time in real life.)
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