HUMAN 1B Lecture 10: Lecture 10
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Opposition empire/barbarians: spatial (capital settlement frontier and beyond, behavior (acting civilized, appearance (physical traits and poverty) Diferent languages: setting: we have crossed the limits of the empire. It is not a moment to take lightly. (69: young woman and translation b. i. At the meeting, the magistrate asks, blind: what is the word for blind? (69) b. i. 1. She is blind but he is touching his own eyelids, so who is really blind? b. ii. What a waste, i think: she could have spent those long empty evenings teaching me her tongue! (70) Telling the truth: for joll, truth is in the way something is said, no just in what you said. Sound/language/barbarism: the sound of pain is viewed as barbarian language. Gender and inequality: the magistrate visits a brothel and he has access to the women in the town, has a position in the time in which he was able to take his pleasures b. i.
