Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aiken made it clear that by empyricist he did not mean one who is interested primarily in observation. "He was certainly not a man who followed his nose," he said, "but recognized the dual importance of logic and observation...
...last week a 28-year-old Shakta named Odia Patel, clad only in a loincloth, walked into a magistrate's office in Bali, a district of Rajasthan in Northwest-Central India. In his hand he held a severed human nose and a bloodstained knife. Said he: "This is my wife's nose. I cut it off because she was unfaithful to me. And this is the knife I used...
...Odia's wife was a young woman named Naji, who came from another village and was not herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place for the ceremony of kanchalia...
Shamed by her performance, Odia followed her. "After I cut off her nose," he told the police, "she begged forgiveness and asked me not to report the matter to the police, but I refused to listen." When the police reached Odia's hut, they found that Naji had hanged herself. She had been faithful, after her own fashion...
Remove your nose from the grindstone And do the things you wish...