Elias Canetti The custodian of the metamorphosis was slowly approaching the myths of power and mass. It was not a thesis, nor an academic treatise on the domain and their secret connections. Lacked a hurry and did not have to render progress reports to anyone, let alone college inspectors ongoing research. Granada obsession. Read and write whole libraries calmly, but with delight. After twenty years the work was done. Some said it was an anthropological feat. Others spoke of sociology, philosophy, psychology and history. In fact what he had done was literature. And good. His fervor patient provided us with a monumental book, indomitable and refractory to genera, which can be drawn stories, fables, essays and poems. Also theories about food, from mythical affiliations convincing. And is that mass and power leaves no gaps in the primary themes of human beings, especially those addressing the old opposition between death and life. One of them, food, lets show our author, for example, "high up", whom the tribe members are as large or powerful chief dispenser of confidence. Much more strongly attached to it, the more eat. When the huge glutton is satisfied, the group breathes security and peace. There is nothing to fear. All have fed the greed of the head and feel calm and well governed.
Canetti points out another variant of the lordship of food, whose presence in their jurisdiction is not marked by the exclusivity of the intakes. I mean the glutton whose authority lies in sharing it stores and eat. In this archetype comes the Roman emperors, which enjoyed heavy cuts pittance. Also come Stauffen, surfeited with turtles and geldings, who visited in his admirable prose Facilities Cunqueiro Alvaro. Those powerful hedonistic only reserve the right to be the first to use everything on the table. Own food and distribute the award, is the central feature of this form of power-hungry. Canetti
not omit, of course, the famous potlatch of the Indians of North America, characterized by the wasteful practice endlessly. Here, who holds the domain does because you can make huge celebrations for the community and distribute them throughout the meal as possible, much more than that required for mass consumption and complete. It also entails the demonstration of command the ability to destroy the stored food. If some players missing from Crowds and Power a reference to the government act to stop the rot food, would be very restrictive. That case is also a kind of potlatch and, of course, a sign of potestas (not auctoritas), which has nothing to do with negligence or undignified business in which some readers have thought it lines.
could go on referring to other expressions of food hegemony Canetti describes in his book inexhaustible, but there is no space. Rather go home. It's time for you, January 1, 1982. Accompanying Mario Muchnik, the first editor in English. They are in a modest apartment in Zürich, crammed with books and papers. Hera just to serve tea with a carrot cake. The conversation continues at length, while Johanna, daughter of nine years of recent Nobel literature flute practice elsewhere in the house and permeates the entire atmosphere of beauty. I suspect that two forms of power made their gentle appearance in this paragraph.
Canetti points out another variant of the lordship of food, whose presence in their jurisdiction is not marked by the exclusivity of the intakes. I mean the glutton whose authority lies in sharing it stores and eat. In this archetype comes the Roman emperors, which enjoyed heavy cuts pittance. Also come Stauffen, surfeited with turtles and geldings, who visited in his admirable prose Facilities Cunqueiro Alvaro. Those powerful hedonistic only reserve the right to be the first to use everything on the table. Own food and distribute the award, is the central feature of this form of power-hungry. Canetti
not omit, of course, the famous potlatch of the Indians of North America, characterized by the wasteful practice endlessly. Here, who holds the domain does because you can make huge celebrations for the community and distribute them throughout the meal as possible, much more than that required for mass consumption and complete. It also entails the demonstration of command the ability to destroy the stored food. If some players missing from Crowds and Power a reference to the government act to stop the rot food, would be very restrictive. That case is also a kind of potlatch and, of course, a sign of potestas (not auctoritas), which has nothing to do with negligence or undignified business in which some readers have thought it lines.
could go on referring to other expressions of food hegemony Canetti describes in his book inexhaustible, but there is no space. Rather go home. It's time for you, January 1, 1982. Accompanying Mario Muchnik, the first editor in English. They are in a modest apartment in Zürich, crammed with books and papers. Hera just to serve tea with a carrot cake. The conversation continues at length, while Johanna, daughter of nine years of recent Nobel literature flute practice elsewhere in the house and permeates the entire atmosphere of beauty. I suspect that two forms of power made their gentle appearance in this paragraph.
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