The erasure of boundaries — also, findings at the K/T boundary?

April 1st, 2019 by Charles Cameron

  • UC Berkeley, 66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

  • Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Scientists Find Fossilized Fish That May Have Been Blasted by Debris From Asteroid That Ended the Dinosaur Age

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    Earlier Zenpundit posts on liminality and borders, among them:

  • Liminality II: the serious part

  • Of border crossings, and the pilgrimage to Arbaeen in Karbala

  • Violence at three borders, naturally it’s a pattern

  • Borders, limina and unity

  • Borders as metaphors and membranes

  • McCabe and Melber, bright lines and fuzzy borders

  • Walls. Christianity & poetry. And nations, identities & borders

  • Limina, thresholds, more on spaces-between & their importance

    • with further references in:

  • The importance and impotence of language, #28 in the series

  • And another next, 26, mixed

  • Can you believe it? We’re at Chyrons & metaphors 19

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    1. Charles Cameron:

      April 1st, 2019 at 8:23 pm

      Another togethering of, in this case, reason and magic:

      “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis
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      The book’s charm resides in the way the author orbits this tension between faith and rationality. He yearns to make sense of how “the laws of reason and the laws of magic . . . reached an easy harmony” in contemporary India.