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25 Feb 2007 @ 19:31, by Unknown


"Nature, in her blind thirst for life, has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature."
-- Joseph Wood Crutch, 'The Genesis of a Mood' from 'A Modern Temper' (1929)

"Carl Kerényi, the Romanian historian of religion, introduces his book on Dionysos by saying that his first insight into the god of wine came to him in a vineyard -- he was looking at the grapevine itself and what he saw was "the image of indestructible life." ... To explain the image, Kerényi distinguishes between two terms for life in Greek, 'bios' and 'zoë.' Bios is limited life, characterized life, life that dies. Zoë is the life that endures; it is the thread that runs through bios-life and is not broken when the particular perishes."
- Lewis Hyde's 'The Gift’

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