At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side only. On that side the cloth falls to the floor, doubling as a communal napkin...there are several kinds of knives...but no forks.
Joseph GiesTag: nonfiction
As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him.
Joseph GiesTag: nonfiction
Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists.
Joseph GiesTag: nonfiction
Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not on open shelves, but in locked chests.
Joseph GiesTag: nonfiction
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: politics music corruption nonfiction
I’m playing catch with Nisha and Nena. They’re standing against the opposite wall shrieking with enjoyment. They’re teenagers, but they’ve never played catch before and lack any sense of coordination; when they throw the ball to me it flies in any direction. Sometimes it hits the wall behind them. We’ve been playing for half an hour and they have only caught it twice.
Louise BrownTag: nonfiction
Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its feet, on the charpoy that is reserved for those who die without money or family to bury them. He looked desiccated and his skin had the sheen and color of the dates we eat to break our fast. There are new bodies on that charpoy every week.
Louise BrownTag: sad nonfiction
a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that they’re not respectable. It’s worse for the victim because once a woman, or a girl—or a boy—is known as the target of a rape she becomes so despised, so shamed, so worthless that she turns into public property. No one is raped only once.
Louise BrownTag: sad nonfiction
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
Bruno BettelheimTag: truth reading reality education learning children on-fiction fiction comprehension nonfiction
What you believe can change your experience.
Staness JonekosTag: nonfiction menopause women-s-health
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