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An Anthropologist on Mars

: Seven Paradoxical Tales

Euripides V includes the plays “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “Iphigenia in Aulis,” translated by Charles R. Walker; “The Cyclops,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and “Rhesus,” translated by Richmond Lattimore.

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Oliver Sacks (3)

“Temple, who was driving, suddenly faltered and wept. “I’ve read that libraries are where immortality lies. . . . I don’t want my thoughts to die with me. . . . I want to have done something. . . . I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a posi…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: Drive, Driving, falter, Weep, cry

“"Capital-punishment states are the worst animal states and the worst for the handicapped.” All this makes Temple passionately angry, and passionately concerned for humane reform: she wants to reform the treatment of the handicapped, especially the autistic, as she wants to reform the treatment of ca…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: Capital Punishment, States, animal, Handicap, Humane

“Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects—seemi…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

Tagged: creature, Create Your Life, Living, Moral, Passion