The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Metadata
- Author: Stephen Jay Gould
- ASIN: B0040711U2
- ISBN: 0099285835
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B0040711U2
- Kindle link
Highlights
I am not making this story up, by the way; the Martian face remains a staple of “proof” for the UFO and alien abduction crowd.) — location: 1158
v far from being “universal” ffs
perfecdy — location: 1325
This framework then implied another primary question— also posed as a dichotomy (and thus illustrating the continuing intrusion of tribal idols as well)—among supporters of an inorganic origin for hysteroliths: if vulva stones originate within the mineral kingdom, does their resemblance to female genitalia reveal a deep harmony in nature, or does the similarity arise by accident and therefore embody no meaning, a mode of origin that scholars of the time called lusus naturae, a game or sport of nature? — location: 1332
important
and the traditional schemes of classification (often passively passed on from a former Neoplatonic heritage without recognition of the biases thus imposed) — location: 1368
how symbols retain lost meaning