"A simple act of sharing-out, of giving, is not of itself necessarily symbolic or cultural. Sharing-out with the understanding of a return, however, involves the concept of reciprocity at another time. Such an understanding, perforce, depends on symbolic communication. In fact it involves the very essence of the symbol, for symbolic thought and only symbolic thought makes it possible to imagine...things not present"
— May 11, 2026 09:21PM
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