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authority figures the first of whom are our parents.

... framed for their images not their deeds. The most primal and basic of human arts has become secondary to its own image.

... a typical American child by adulthood will have absorbed more than 30,000 electronic "stories." These have replaced the socializing role of the preindustrial church in creating a "cultural mythology" that establishes the norm of approved behaviour and belief.

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Madame de Mauves by Henry James - 1874

She dreamed of marrying a title - not for the pleasure of hearing herself called Madame la Vicomptesse ..., but because she had a romantic belief that the best birth is the guaranty of an ideal delicacy of feeling.

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It is perhaps because, like many of the same stock, he had in his composition a lurking principle of asceticism to whose authority he had ever paid and unquestioning respect, that he now felt all the vehemence of rebellion. To renounce - to renounce again - to renounce forever - was this all that youth and longing and resolve were meant for? Was experience to be muffled and mutilated, like an indecent picture?

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"My reason? Reason is a mere word! The only reality in the world is feeling. p 194

Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre doors, and the muffled rumble of swift-rolling carriages, that this is no world for you unless you have your pockets lined and your