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Tuesday, November 27, 2001
Writing the Red Vrellish Will be a challenge. Because although they can be childlike, they are not children. It would probably help to dig up an anthropology study written by the kind of anthropologist who can either drop his or her prejudices about civilization and the primitive completely or localize those prejudices so well that the frame of reference is exposed. (A more rigorous intellectual exercise than purely being honest, worthy as honesty is.) Because "primitive" like "childish" comes with centuries of baggage carrying the assumption that these states are developmental stages on the way to something more mature.
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