I Never Leave A Sentence Or A

A Religion Is A System Of Symbols Which Acts To Establish Powerful, Pervasive, And Long-lasting Moods In Men By Formulating Conceptions Of A General Order Of Existence And Clothing Those Conceptions With Such An Aura Of Factuality That The Moods And Motivations Seem Uniquely Realistic.

Anthropology In General Has Always Been Fairly Hospitable To Female Scholars, And Even To Feminist Scholars

There Is An Indian Story -- At Least I Heard It As An Indian Story -- About An Englishman Who, Having Been Told That The World Rested On A Platform Which Rested On The Back Of An Elephant Which Rested In Turn On The Back Of A Turtle, Asked (perhaps He Was An Ethnographer; It Is The Way They Behave), What Did The Turtle Rest On? Another Turtle. And That Turtle? 'ah, Sahib, After That It Is Turtles All The Way Down

I Was Trained In The '50s As A New Critic. I Remember What Literature Was Like Before The New Critics, When People Stood Up And Talked About Shelley's Soul And Such Things

If I Remember Correctly, A Writer Is Someone Who Wants To Convey Information. Language Or Writing Is A Code