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Eskimos
«The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.»
«Unlike children in other countries, the Eskimos played no game of war. They played with imaginary rifles and harpoons, but these were never directed against people but against the formidable beasts that haunted the vast wastes of their land.»
«I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
admired, cooked, Eskimo, Eskimos, One Fine Day
«Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bluster, blustering, braid, coat hanger, decorative, dress uniform, Eskimo, Eskimos, guardsman, guardsmen, hanger, icon, iconic, icons, inside information, magnificent, ostensibly, parasol, secularized, tactile
«The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?»
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker
(Actress)
| Keywords:
defines, Eskimo, Eskimos, hundreds, snow, three times