Word: handã
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...highly undesirable tenant, perhaps even more than Harvard is today. A religious corporation like an abbey or monastery never made the standard payments for inheritance, marriages or felonies—instead, it evaded its taxes in perpetuity, controlling properties from beyond the grave with a “dead hand?? (“mortmain”). The landowners complained bitterly of losing “the services which are due of such fees,” which after all were provided “for the defense of the realm.” And in 1279, King Edward...
...bodies? The children’s hands immediately call to mind the answers children themselves often give. Most basic is an outline, as those that are found in children’s coloring books. More complex is the practice of fingerpainting, which captures more of the hand??s individuality: its lines, its valleys and its asymmetry. Yet like the outline, the imprint is still a static representation, freezing a child’s growing hand in a moment of its development...
...negative. Some are incandescent and pulse with life, as if trying to burst out of the glass; one from a two-year old boy sits curled and silent like a raccoon’s paw, taking up almost no space on the black matte. The life that animates each hand??s outline creates tension between the jet-black background and the dark, mottled interior with its rune-like lifelines. And the hands are recognizably human: There is not any bone or blood vessel to remind us that each of us is, essentially, a Halloween skeleton...
...Economics alone, however, can’t possibly explain why there seems to be a societal aversion to growing older. After all, it’s a preference that long predates the advent of the “invisible hand??: how many fables are structured around the foolishness of mortals grasping at immortality? There’s just something about being young that makes us seem one step farther away from the inevitable, that makes us to appear—however irrational that belief might be—to have that much more time left. Modern society...