Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from … - Margaret Visser

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They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

Margaret Visser

Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. . . . It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land; a lot sterilizes it.

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Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred.

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We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

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The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.

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Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.

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