01:790:376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Omen, Choker, Amalek
26 Apr 2018
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Forethought: two worlds: one within and one without (i. e. , outside of) the veil, claim of solidarity, i who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil. I remember well when the shadow swept across me . In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys" and girls" heads to buy gorgeous visiting-cares ten cents a package and exchange. The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card, refused it peremptorily, with a glance. Veil as vehicle of exclusion, veil as source of insight: ch. 1: born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this american world . It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one"s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one"s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
