By J. E. Cirlot
People, it's stated, are symbolizing animals. At each degree of civilization, humans have depended on symbolic expression, and advances in technology and know-how have in simple terms elevated our dependence on symbols. The language of symbols is taken into account a technological know-how, and this informative quantity bargains an fundamental software within the learn of symbology. it may be used as a reference or just browsed for excitement. lots of its entries — these on structure, mandala, numbers, serpent, water, and zodiac, for instance — could be learn as autonomous essays. The energy of symbology hasn't ever been larger: an important a part of the traditional arts of the Orient and of the Western medieval traditions, symbolism underwent a 20th-century revival with the research of the subconscious, either without delay within the box of desires, visions, and psychoanalysis, and not directly in paintings and poetry. a large viewers awaits the help of this dictionary in elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in either the humanities and the historical past of rules.
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What really happened was that Phoebe had gotten a phone call from a little girl. “Are you sure it was a girl? ” Sam had asked when he got home from work and she told him about the call. His words came hard and fast and sounded accusatory. Like he suspected Phoebe of imagining the whole thing. “I don’t know. She sounded young. ” Phoebe left out her biggest impression: she sounded scared. And nearly breathless. ” Sam got pale. ” He nodded. “It’s in the attic at my mom’s. ” At ten of six, Sam’s cousin and her husband arrived in a black Jeep with the top down.
Aunt Hazel brought him trays of food, cups of tea, and all his medicine. She was a nurse, which her mom said was a big help right now. Hazel knew how to take care of people like Da. He stayed on the couch, buried beneath a pile of quilts, with his eyes closed most of the time. Even when they were open, it was like he was sleeping behind them. He looked right through you, like you were the ghost. “Boo,” Lisa said to him sometimes, hoping for a reaction but getting nothing. Reliance was full of ghosts.
Sam was still in the driver’s seat but didn’t notice her bowlegged trucker walk as she approached. He was looking down at the plastic Ziploc bag on his lap, the treasured Book of Fairies inside. All she’d seen so far was the cover: worn and green, the title handwritten in now-smudged calligraphy. Tonight, Sam and Evie were going to open it up, read through it carefully page by page. What Sam held on his lap might well be the biggest clue as to what happened to Lisa. The book, like Lisa, had been missing for fifteen years, and now here it was, balanced on Sam’s lap as he sat in the driver’s seat of their crappy old Mercury Sable.