But, he adds in an important codicil, this usage is permissible only if one avoids the pernicious religious beliefs that such locutions imply.
Thomas has a fine eye for the telling quote and the funny vignette, and his style is eminently readable. "The New York Times Book Review" "" Terrifically engaging. should be read by anyone with a more open mind about the oddest man ever to occupy the Oval Office. Max Boot, "The Wall Street Journal" Ambitious. There are well-crafted word-pictures of Nixon throughout the narrative. Carl Bernstein, "The Washington Post""
Another possibly Euhemerizing tendency, one that is an unsurprising feature of Latin poetry and, if only for that reason, to be found in the pages of Lucretius, is the use of gods' names to designate items of special significance for human life, such as ‘Venus’ for love or sex, and ‘Bacchus’ for wine. At 2.598–660 Lucretius discusses the religious portrayal of Earth as divine mother, and concludes that if one is going to call sea ‘Neptune’, corn ‘Ceres’, wine ‘Bacchus’, etc.—as he himself indeed often enough does—one might reasonably also personify the earth as their mother, hence as ‘mother of the gods’. But, he adds in an important codicil, this usage is permissible only if one avoids the pernicious religious beliefs that such locutions imply.
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Originally published in 1978, this is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family's 20 years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness.
