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Oct. 11th, 2004 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupSometimes being an academic does amuse....
Some peoples are too primitive to make masks. None are too wise to believe in magic. The abysmal bushmen of Australia do not carve themselves false faces; they do not even use animals' heads. Their speech is so debased that they cannot understand one another without the use of gesture; therefore they cannot talk in the dark....if [the bushman] fears a dearth of kangaroos or grasshoppers or whatever else may furnish forth his table, he acts a little play in which these things are shown coming to be killed.
-- "Masks and Demons", 1923.
Read a book, buddy!
-- Anonymous margin annotation next to the above passage.
Some peoples are too primitive to make masks. None are too wise to believe in magic. The abysmal bushmen of Australia do not carve themselves false faces; they do not even use animals' heads. Their speech is so debased that they cannot understand one another without the use of gesture; therefore they cannot talk in the dark....if [the bushman] fears a dearth of kangaroos or grasshoppers or whatever else may furnish forth his table, he acts a little play in which these things are shown coming to be killed.
-- "Masks and Demons", 1923.
Read a book, buddy!
-- Anonymous margin annotation next to the above passage.
