Pairbondage, Troopbondage, Abidance, Ycleptance & Foredoomance are 5 exigencies of being human, that John Money characterizes here -
http://scottmacleod.com/anthropology/determinism.htm -
as transcultural, transhistorical and universal (Wow!) ...
I'm looking for narratives for each exigency, that peacefully & wonderfully illuminate them - perhaps kids' stories, even.
Ideas?
May add to WUaS's Children's Literature & Wisdom {http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Children%27s_Literature_and_Wisdom} subject ...
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Ovid's 'Baucis & Philemon' - about the old couple in ancient Greece who loved each other so much, that after doing kindness to a disguised God (Hermes, I think), he granted their request to be forever entwined as trees after they died - is an example of what I mean for pairbonding, for example.
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In a Gaelic vein, Altenberg's 'Island of Wings' about a couple on St. Kilda in Scotland (reviewed recently in the Independent) ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/05/northern-gannets-pairbondage.html - May 4, 2011)
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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