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... words could be standardized and fixed could individualized meanings be derived from their different combinations and sequences . To manipulate the infinite number of variables opened up by language , words themselves must remain rela ...
... words could be standardized and fixed could individualized meanings be derived from their different combinations and sequences . To manipulate the infinite number of variables opened up by language , words themselves must remain rela ...
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... words . Only if the right word were used in the right order did the spell work . Robert Braidwood notes that a similar standardization can be detected in fairly early paleolithic culture in the shaping of tools . Once a good functional ...
... words . Only if the right word were used in the right order did the spell work . Robert Braidwood notes that a similar standardization can be detected in fairly early paleolithic culture in the shaping of tools . Once a good functional ...
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... words that the young Babylonian god Marduk uttered , before becoming the chief defender of his fellow gods against the ancient goddess of the primal waters , Tiamat , are the words kings learned to utter long before Marduk took his ...
... words that the young Babylonian god Marduk uttered , before becoming the chief defender of his fellow gods against the ancient goddess of the primal waters , Tiamat , are the words kings learned to utter long before Marduk took his ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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