[...]tory changes)

(how when why) the fact of ="trms">recruiting must be linked to de="trms">monstrations of bravery

="trms">position in the hierarchy
manner of ="trms">recruiting


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> shyness='lgc'>: dancing a little dance of hesitation


(="ppl">="ppl">Despret's account of how Heinrish succeeded in) ="trms">recruiting the ravens around his problem ='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> ='strcls'>*he sufficiently ="trms">recruited himself to invent pertinent ways of addressing them='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==> the models are now commensurate متناسب with their unpre="trms">dictability
='at'>@="nms">apass

Heinrish becomes their expert and their re="trms">liable spokesperson ='lgc'>==> (like ="frds scrmbld">Pierre) he could now convince and ="trms">interest his colleagues in terms that count for them (='lgc'>==> enroll other rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers to pose other ="trms">questions) ='lgc'>==> he could bear witness for them
='lgc'>=/= Hitchcock's the ="trms">birds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature turned to ="trms">horror, based on in Germany in mid-1990s fifty ravens invaded the idyllie Swabian Alps region... ='lgc'>==> their killing would be necessary
(chain of ="trms">recruitment='lgc'>:) the German ravens had in thier turn succeeded in ="trms">recruiting the re="trms">presentative of the american ravens, and Heinrish was able to ="trms">recruit ="trms">ecologists, who in their turn mobilized experts and politicians, who themselves modified the habits of the owners of the cows and sheep... ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Tsing's coalescence='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***amazing ="trms">inter="trms">specific ="trms">recruitment='strcls'>***


="frds">Sina ='lgc'>--telegram='lgc'>='lgc'>--> visual ="trms">animal ='lgc'>--inventing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">hallucinating ='lgc'>--spoiled='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dis="trms">sociated
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda ='lgc'>--Boicic='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wounded dog ='lgc'>--saving='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mothering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> traumatized (left alone)


wolf observers
Heinrish's colleagues who study wolves in Yellowstone ="trms">Natural Park
the peaceful cohabitation between the wolves and ravens
in Yellowstone when the ravens are in the ="trms">presence of wolves, do not de="trms">monstrate any timidity and do not hesitate a second before eating ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the wolves allow ravens to conquer their fear ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wolves changed the constrains that hold sway over the habits of the ravens
the ravens of much more alert and vigilant than the wolves (the ="trms">birds serve the wolves as extra eyes and ears)


the prophecy ="trms">translated in terms of ="trms">recruitment ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> who could have thought, if not no doubt a descendant of La Fontaine, that it is the ravens who protect the wolves and permit then to eat with their eyes closed='qstn'>? ='heart'>♥

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
the old taghalob (تقلب cheat)
="trms">history of enumeration in the ="nms">Iran (="trms">measurement, weight, scale)
the ="trms">history of our non-mathematical practices

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time ="trms">travel (in TV series or ="trms">literature) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (regardless if they are dystopian or not) essential for creating sensations of ="trms">historical continuity

Marzolph on pre="trms">modern middle eastern ="trms">narrative culture
seafaring merchant...
sailor's yarns

tales documented in persian ="trms">literature of the muslim period appear to be offshoots of earlier versions in either indian or arabic ="trms">literature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arabic as the ="trms">lingua franca of the day

Kitab ="nms">ajayeb al Hind, ="trms">wonders of india, 10th century by ="nms">iranian captain Bozorg ibn Sahriyar of Ramhormoz

(Marzolph holisitic assessment ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= Beyzai's parochial claims of ="nms">iranianness='lgc'>] of) middle-eastern ="trms">narrative traditions='lgc'> = arabic ='lgc'>+ persian ='lgc'>+ otaman turkish ='lgc'>+ jewish ='lgc'>+ christian (='lgc'>+ several other) ="trms">narrative traditions related to each other and none of which may claim an ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ="trms">position

city of Brass
the Golden City is a legendary city built in africa by Tawil, the brother of the giant Ug, both of whom were born from the incestuous ="trms">relation between Cain and his sister Anaq. having been deserted for more than a thousand years, the Golden City was later conquered by Egyptians and became the source of their ="trms">fabulous wealth.

="large lg1" stl="font-size:148%"> agahi آگاهی knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
na javan mard ناجوانمرد impudent one
farz فرض rite
sonat سنت manner
mardi مردی manly combat

='lgc'>[="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Ehsan ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] in the manner of ='strcls'>*="trms">narrative men='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> typical for the thousand and one nights='lgc'>--whose protagonists of merchants (often thrift sons of rich merchants, who embark on ="trms">travel after they have wasted their fortune with false friends)
="lsts lst1">•save himself by his inventiveness, strong determination, physical strength
="lsts lst1">•there is no single predestined future but a variety of options whose eventual practical course depends on the protagonist's active ="trms">intervention
="lsts lst1">•(="nms">Sinbad left behind on an island where) the Ruhh has laid its eggs (spirit's eggs تخم های روح 🥚🥚🥚)
="lsts lst1">•althought most of them kill other people in order to survive, their action is spontaneously motivated by the needs of the moment
="lsts lst1">•

با هزار زحمت with a thousand efforts


customary formal “hearing is obeying”


pitfalls
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]When I returned home, my wife had died. They lifted her up, took me along, and brought us to that cave. With a rope they let me down and blocked the entrance of the cave. After they had lowered the ='lgc'>[body of my dead='lgc'>] wife and the ='lgc'>[bundle of='lgc'>] clothes and I had regained my senses, I got up and saw a tremendously large cave. I installed the wick and lit the lamp, chose a place by the side, cleaned it and made a bedstead. And when every two days they threw somebody down there alive, I killed that person with my knife and took the supplies of three days b="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and water, until one day they de="trms">posited in that cave my former wife’s sister alive, together with her dead husband. When she saw me, she recognized me and consented to marry me. I slept with her and had several ="trms">children with her. Some time later I started to dig the ground in a corner of the cave with my knife until I had made a ='lgc'>[large='lgc'>] hole to the side of the sea. Every day I would sit there, until I finally saw a ship. I attached a piece of cloth to a stick and waved it, until the ship came close and took me and my ="trms">children aboard. They also asked me the same ="trms">question ='lgc'>[i. e. why my ="trms">children had heads like horses='lgc'>], I told them my ="trms">story, and they delivered me to my country. I had many more ="trms">children with that woman. This is the ="trms">story of my ="trms">children and their ="trms">ancestry.”


moral ="trms">obligation of contemporary ="trms">society
...the king would use the slave girl as muslim men would do='lgc'> = for entertainment of all kinds (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding sexual ="trms">intercourse, but not eating them)


relief after hardship فرج بعد از شدت

urdu romance bagh o bahar باغ و بهار

(the considerably older) misogynous motif of the unfaithful wife
husband and sife being buried together

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> part and parcel of the ='strcls'>**="trms">narrative stock='strcls'>** talented ="trms">storytellers would exploit to construct their tales

="trms">intertextual references
="lsts lst1">•cannibal black men
="lsts lst1">•the one-eyed person whose one eye had been picked out by a ="trms">bird (a well-known ="trms">narrative from pre="trms">modern arabic and persian tradition, a one-eyed character is taken as an ill omen, whereas here he figures as a friendly advisor and helper)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***stock characters='strcls'>*** of pre="trms">modern middle eastern ="trms">literature

Marzolph ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concider texts as artful creations ="trms">composed by a talented ="trms">narrator ='lgc'>=/= taking texts as the products of an anonymous popular “="trms">fold” tradition that would indiscriminately غيرمشخص lump together all kinds of ="trms">material ='lgc'>==> belittling the creative act of a single individual

='strcls'>*="trms">intertextual allusions (to themes, motifs, concepts familiar to the audience) ='lgc'>: a highly effective narative ="trms">technique for linking new and unknown tales to a web of tradition the audience shares='strcls'>*

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='strcls'>*='lgc'>~._

all the familiar landmarks of your thoughts that you find in somebody else's


="large lg5" stl="font-size:126%"> عجایب نامه ="nms">ajayeb (doing it here in europe)='lgc'>: the exotic charm of another ="trms">system of thought (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= its limitation)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">zoo='lgc'>: terrible grounds that the ="trms">child ='lgc'>[= us='lgc'>] enjoys='lgc'> = primal s="trms">cene of conquest (of nation building, of state power) ='lgc'>--carceral='lgc'>='lgc'>--> s="trms">cene of sadistic pleasure, where bodies become “flesh” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- telegram is all of this='lgc'>]
(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward ='lgc'>+ Borges)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">child='lgc'>: a primal s="trms">cene='lgc'> = the promise of the ="trms">social, the human, and the future ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***="trms">child is necessary for the ="trms">ongoingness of colonialism='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ="trms">children in The 100 TV series ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*white ="trms">child='lgc'>: an explorer of terrible grounds='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•conscripted labor
="lsts lst1">•enslavement
="lsts lst1">•necropolitical economy
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>--elaborating-proliferating='lgc'>='lgc'>--> productive engines of empire

='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how might the effects of colonialism always find ="trms">children enjoying terrible places='qstn'>?
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