Thought implies distinction between a thinker and an object of thought. There is an essential division between the contemplator and the contemplated ( Read more... )

The food smells of sulfur.

I expect this has something to do with the field trip you all went on.

I wonder if this ship is actually heading anywhere. Bear with me, I trust you've all heard this before. But I wonder if we are cannon-fodder. The ship makes a circuit from one point to the next, pirates attack, we repulse them.

Some of us die. Some of us don't come back.

We never seem to get anywhere.

Are we marionettes, dancing on Redd's

Marriage has been, for much of human history, the purchase of women and the rights to their future children by men. Legally purchasing a woman through marriage ensured a man a child-bearer and domestic servant who was entitled to no wages and had few--if any--legal recourse if her owner was abusive ( Read more... )