Writing of Stones

Writing of Stones

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Please allow 10 working days to process before shipping Garment Dyed - Ivory Short Sleeve100% Combed Ring Spun Cotton  Nature is a temple where living pillarsLet sometimes emerge confused words …-Baudelaire  Roger Caillois, polymath, aesthetic philosopher, historian of science, and social analyst of ritual and belief, was friends with André Breton and fellow Surrealist; but in 1934 they parted over the Surrealist commitment to mystery for its own sake: Caillois was an investigator of a more empirical temper. Caillois’s disagreement with Breton arose when the two men were shown some Mexican jumping beans: beans that will suddenly twitch and take a leap into the air. Caillois conjectured that there was a worm or larva inside them, and he wanted to dissect one to find out; Breton objected roundly, denouncing Caillois as a low-grade positivist who refused the marvelous and defaced the poetic by wanting explanations—in other words, Caillois was of the party that wants to unweave the r

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