Synopsis of GR--corrections
Jody Keith Gilbert
gilbert at sfu.ca
Wed Jan 25 12:05:51 CST 1995
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Does anyone know the page number in GR (preferably Viking edition) of the
> following short quote:
>
> Names by themselves may be empty, but the _act of naming_ . . .
>
> It's in my notes for a book I'm writing on American education, but I
> obviously messed up in not recording the page.
>
There may be no gods, but there is a pattern: names by themselves may
have no magic, but the act of naming, the physical utterance, obeys
the pattern. Nordhausen means dwellings in the north.
p. 322
"Raketemensch!" screams Saure, grabbing the helmet and unscrewing the
horns off of it. Names by themselves may be empty, but the act of
naming. .
p. 366
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