One of the reasons I am drawn to writing, and ~LitErArY pUrSuiTs~, is that I find it to be an exciting, liberating, emboldening way of making sense of the world, of making meaning. It doesn’t even need to be Meaning with a capital M. It’s just about playing with associations
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What I mean by that is – writing, tweeting, playing with ideas – these are ways in which I make the world around me more interesting, more meaningful. One simple way to do this is to research the history of every object in your vicinity. Suddenly your boring stuff comes alive
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I've been thinking about talismans recently – everything sacred becomes sacred because people deem it such. You can decide to give objects meaning. It's not *entirely* arbitrary – there's an art to it, the stories you tell with and about your objects should resonate with youpic.twitter.com/hlIiARUssU
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Right - 'sacred objects' are partly physical condensations of symbol/story, and can provide a gateway of sorts depending on how people relate to them. Humans are super weird, but ritual theory is catching up to some of the how/why of ritual behaviour.
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