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Reading slowly due to studying intermediate Mandarin in Taiwan

Slow, character driven story so far with no plot. Love it.

The argument that humans, perhaps biologically, need to categorize things of their enviornment in order to survive is arelatively simple one. To study it in our daily rituals is not so simple. When we set up and clean our tables, cook, clean our restrooms and floors, what are we actually doing? In this structural anthroplogical work by Douglas, she argues that our rituals of cleaning is symbolic rather than hygienic.

Hearing your words, and not a word among them

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are 100 places where I fear
To go, —so with his memory they brim…
And so stand stricken, remembering him.

An extremely depressing journal. I find our almost identical thoughts alarming.

这是一本漂亮书，写译文写的真好。 的时候我看这本的，我觉得我在1700年中国。

Great writing… my first Morrison