Intense

“The need for a sacrificial ritual is the more * if the killing must still be legitimized as a proper sacrifice” (M. A. n’Hesterse, Broken worlds: The sacrificial role of crime fiction. Herma Ness: T. S. Heesterman Jr. and Co., 1993, p. 47).

“Remediation in this case focuses on exploiting latent plasticity in those areas with * perceptual retraining, with the goal of restructuring cortical maps from the bottom up (Tallal, Merzenich, et al. 1998; Temple et al. 2003)” (S. Farmer, Neurobiology, stratified texts, and the evolution of thought: From myths to religions and philosophies. Expanded version of a talk given at the Harvard and Peking University International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Beijing, China, 11–13 May 2006, p. 14. Available at www.safarmer.com).

“Though apparently bewildering, a prominent feature of Indian legal literature is the * contempt for the physicians and surgeons” (D. Chattopadhyaya, Science and society in ancient India. Calcutta: Research India Publications, 1977, pp. 212–213).

“As an *, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul-Sartre sort of man, wasn’t it simple logic to expect that he’d be limited to *, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul-Sartre sorts of women?” (R. Yates, Revolutionary Road. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., p. 23).

“J’en arrive à penser que l’amour et la mort — engendrer et se défaire, ce qui revient au même — sont pour moi choses si proches que toute idée de joie charnelle ne me touche qu’accompagnée d’une terreur superstitieuse, comme si les gestes de l’amour, en même temps qu’ils amènent ma vie en son point le plus *, ne devaient que me porter malheur” (M. Leiris, L’âge d’homme. Paris: Gallimard, 1939, pp. 28–29).