"before we could begin our journey we had to be cleansed at the portal of the earth"
[ Wade Davis on the worldwide web of the belief and ritual ]**
TED TALKS

"the fastest young boy, given the honor of being a woman. leads a run, up and down a mountain...
through exhaustion you emerge as a community"
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The Pleasures of Imagination
The Chronicle of Higher Education >
" Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real."