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the rough shape of a record keeping and monitoring system that was only just coming into existence.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
Archival discoveries are a manna that fully justify their name: sources,b as refreshing as wellsprings.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
For it is there—in nature—that we bump up against the mystery of a little brown mushroom with the power to change the consciousness of the animals that eat it.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
“But here they are less human than elsewhere.
William Weaver • The Name of the Rose
their occult power resides in the tradition among some kabbalists to risk even a journey to hell for a goal which will not only
Richard Zimler • The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
philology
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
Details of work situations provide the same type of narrative, giving us both information and that which enables us to access
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
Both his religious beliefs and his family memories are true for him not because of historical research but regardless of it.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
Ötzi, the five-thousand-year-old “Ice Man” found mummified in an alpine glacier in 1991, was carrying a pouch in which he had a piece of amadou.