A Language Older Than Words - Derrick Jensen [180]
The story of Origen is not unique. Many early Christians castrated themselves, following Matthew 19.
For explorations of the Christian hatred of the body, see Stannard, Daly, Turner, French (Beyond Power), Griffin (Woman and Nature), or many others. Specifically "What is seen . .." is from Origen, Selecta in Exodus xviii.17, Migne, Patrologia Graeca, volume 12, column 296. "I know nothing .. ." is from St. Augustine Basic Writings of St. Augustine.
"They built a . . ." is from de Las Casas's Brief Account.
"did no other . . ." is cited in Stannard.
The story of the woman who was a role model for Spokane was in the Spokesman-Review on April 27.1997.
“Act provocatively and ...” is from the Spokesman-Review, November 7, 1997.
Seeking a Third Way
"For those in . .." is from Campbells Masks of God, volume IV
For accounts of prisoner exchanges between the Indians and whites, see
especially Stannard and Turner. Demonic Males was written by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Information on the Semai is from Dentan's The Semai. One of many books to read as antidotes to Demonic Males might be Eleanor
Burke Leacock's Myths of Male Dominance.
Breaking Out
"The world of..." is cited in Daly, Beyond God the Father.
Richard Dawkins' quotes are from The Selfish Gene.
The account of the trial for animal abuse was in the Spokesman-Review, June 27, 1997. The verdict, and the account of the judge's tongue-lashing, was in the paper on June 28.
"I never knew ..." is from Hearne's Journals.
There are many extraordinary books giving examples of interspecies communication. The stories I told here are a representative collage from many sources. But if you want to learn about interspecies communication, put the books away (including this one) and go ask a nonhu-man.
The best general exploration of the history of civilization's assault on wolves is Rick Mclntyre's War Against the Wolf
The economics textbook I reference is Froyen's Macroeconomics. The V symbol means "equals by definition."
"There is not ..." is from an interview of Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian.
Economics
"scarcely admit either ..." is in Raven-Hart, Cape of Good Hope, citing Ovington.
"A woman must..." is cited in Daly's Beyond God the Father.
The story of the extermination of the great auk is given in Mowat's Sea of Slaughter. Here is the destruction of the last egg: "As they clambered up they saw two Geirfugel [great auks] sitting among numberless other sea-birds, and at once gave chase. The Geirfugel showed not the slightest disposition to repel the invaders, but immediately ran along the high
cliff, their heads erect, their little wings extended. They uttered no cry of alarm and moved, with their short steps, about as quickly as a man could walk. Jon, with outstretched arms, drove one onto a corner, where he soon had it fast. Sigurder and Ketil pursued the second and seized it close to the edge of the rock. Ketil then returned to the sloping shelf whence the birds had started and saw an egg lying on the lava slab, which he knew to be a Geirfugel's. He took it up, and finding it was broken, dropped it again. All this took place in much less time than it took to tell." I really do hate this culture. The accounts of fecundity prior to the arrival of civilization are from Mowat's Sea of Slaughter.
The Goal Is the Process
"It's life that..." is from Dostoyevski's The Idiot.
Heroes
"If I were ..." is from a 1704 letter from Fletcher to the Marquise of
Montrose. U.S. Crimes Against Humanity are described in Ramsey Clark's The Fire
This Time.
Metamorphosis
"Between living and....” is from Stephen Mitchell's The Enlightened Heart.
Insatiability
"We need to ..." is from the Anderson Valley Advertiser, December, 10,1997. If you want information about the fight to save Mount Graham, go to the people and organizations leading the fight. I would probably start with the Apache Survival Coalition. If you've got Internet access, you might look there.
Violence
"We kill when ..." is from Hesse's Reflections.
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