... emptiness which needs to be made a part of the "fully named world" (21) that Almasy and others seek to create through maps. By placing himself within the framework of The Odyssey-a touchstone of our culture's drive towards the classificatory operation of the Author Function-the English patient makes explicit the connection between Alma sy's "will to name" and the attempt to ... he writes. The Author Function "subverts" this redemption, and replaces it with the "voluntary effacement" of self sacrifice, a subversion which provides narrative with the "right to kill" (ioa). As Williams notes ...

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... Poroi) caused you to go to all this trouble, now it will be over." Source: Address by tribal elder to young men undergoing the (Kangi Poroi) manhood ritual. Source: Field notes of David G. Fitzpatrick 1977 in "Bundi, the culture of Papua New Guinea people" Ryebuck Publications, Nerang Queensland Australia 1983 THE HISTORY OF NAVEL PIERCING Navel piercing is a modern invention and ... . The Roman historian Mensius declares that Infibulation may be traced back to the time of the siege of Troy (12th Century BC) for he points out that according to "The Odyssey" (Bk. VIII, Line 477) Agamemnon...

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... exhibit both good and evil qualities but they also possess both ouranic (heavenly) and chthonic (underworld) characters, the latter being more often associated with evil (Russell 1977, 123). Brenk notes that in Homer's Odyssey, "the daimon acts very much like a god, except that it tends to be unidentifiable and evil" (Brenk 1986, 2074). The main question that must be answered is how ... ...

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