H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness
Ivan Illich
Language: English
Pages: 94
ISBN: B007EDLBIQ
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half of this century, directs his attention to waterm the 'stuff' of purity and the creative force of the imagination without which life in unthinkable. He deals with the dual nature of water, as life-giving material substance and as the wellspring of forml, on which are founded the most basic myths and cultural manifestations: water as cleanser, water as domestic necessity and water as a religious and spiritual force.
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Frozen into texts. He follows the lines of a written text; the epic river that feeds its own source is remembered no more. Not one Greek city has preserved an altar dedicated to Mnemosyne.20 Her name becomes a technical term for “memory” now imagined as a page; the stuff of memory turns from water into a shard. Written language, which has fixed words on clay tables, acquires more authority than the re-evocation of fluid, living speech. Many types of “writing” had been known before, but all of.
Within shelters which they rent or buy. Each now needs a street address with a house number (and, in some cases, an apartment number too). People have lost the aura that allowed their whereabouts to be sniffed out in the old days. When the idea of the new city, made up of residents, began to register in the minds of the leaders of the Enlightenment, everything that smacked of quality in space came to be objectionable. Space had to be stripped of its aura once aura had been identified with stench.
Water as “Stuff” The substance that is considered “water” or “fire” varies with culture and epoch. And water is always dual. It tends to stand for the original couple—more often than not for the twins who before creation lay in each other’s arms. Water envelops what exists before space was. Water is the blood that nourishes even before milk can flow. Many things can be waters: there are some cultures in which the salty ocean is as unlike blood as it is unlike the water that quenches thirst.
Had not yet discovered the art of collecting or fixing spiritus silvestres, wild spirits, and they refused to have anything to do with them.” Brillat-Savarin (Physique du Gout, 1825, 42) saw in the new concept a threat to his theory of high taste: “The sapid body is only esteemed for its juice and not for the odoriferous gas that emanates from it” (from the same source). Goethe, Faust II, 4, v, 10084: “Hell swelled up with stench and sulfuric acid, which gave off a gas. It went on to become.
Divide between the two kingdoms, placed the reign of shadow on the western bank toward the horizon where Heaven and Earth are fused, so in late antiquity this body of water was located in far-off Galicia. During the Middle Ages the poor souls on the way to purgatory had to cross the Atlantic Ocean to reach the fabulous island of Saint Patrick, shown to the northwest of Cabo Verde until late into the fifteenth century. Bruce Lincoln has shown that there is yet another common feature in all.