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== On Mortality == | == On Mortality == | ||
| − | Can we just talk for a moment about how powerful that story about the Taoist and immortality was? It was one of those tales that really showed how strong of an emotion love is and how essential it is to the human race. It's a universal emotion and the story really portrays how important it is to families in a very large scale. We spend so much time talking about New England and Southern families that sometimes, as historians, it's hard to remember that some basic morals are the same for every family type. -Kelly W. | + | Can we just talk for a moment about how powerful that story about the Taoist and immortality was? It was one of those tales that really showed how strong of an emotion love is and how essential it is to the human race. It's a universal emotion and the story really portrays how important it is to families in a very large scale. We spend so much time talking about New England and Southern families that sometimes, as historians, it's hard to remember that some basic morals are the same for every family type. -Kelly W. |
| + | After reading On Mortality and On Mortality Again, I wonder if silence is culturally significant to the Chinese. Both stories blame failure on noise. –Andrew B | ||
== The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada == | == The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada == | ||
