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«Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.»
Author: Angela Carter (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: bluster, blustering, braid, coat hanger, decorative, dress uniform, Eskimo, Eskimos, guardsman, guardsmen, hanger, icon, iconic, icons, inside information, magnificent, ostensibly, parasol, secularized, tactile
«Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manne»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley (Biologist) | About: Common sense, Science | Keywords: cut-and-thrust, differ, differing, guardsman, guardsmen, raw, raw recruit, recruit, recruited, recruiting, recruits, thrust, trained, veteran, veterans
«Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Common sense | Keywords: beadle, beadles, guardsman, guardsmen
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