Tuesday, August 31, 2010

And she saw that it was good.

"Thus Pliny tells us that if you have wounded a man and are sorry for it, you have only to spit on the hand that gave the wound, and the pain of the sufferer will be instantly alleviated." -James Frazer

After a most intense bout of searching, I have located The Golden Bough and am now able to select the first of my quotes from it. Here's to a semester of wisdom and mythology!

CL.

2 comments:

  1. Where did you find it? I have only looked on campus, but they were sold out and the woman at the bookstore was VERY rude about it :(

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  2. I tried Borders and they carried at least one copy. Barnes and Nobel also has a few in stock. But of course there's always the free copy online....oh well, too little too late.

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