It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptions... empirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do th...e vixen and wild duck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slaughter before, fragment of burnt meat,... deep mystery, grapple of mind to reach the tense thought, power and wealth, purpose and prayer alike, (men, fires, feasts, temple steps) useless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if ti...ed by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and h...unching, all those rituals: pathological!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive... sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Willows last to relinquish a leaf, curious, patient, lion-headed, tense... with energy, watching the serene cold through a curtain of tarnished strands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »