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...many celebrate Christmas and nearly everyone buys a Christmas cake decorated with figurines. Russia's Orthodox Christians, who celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, flock to have their fortunes told in the week before the holiday. Britons swear by their Christmas pudding, a steamed, alcohol-soaked fruitcake. One cherished ritual of most British festivities is pulling the treat-filled Christmas crackers. Whatever your favorite tradition, Happy Christmas...
...user into a state that is not so much narcotic as contemplative. "The moment of taking a cigarette allows one to open a parenthesis in the time of ordinary experience, a space and time of heightened attention that give rise to a feeling of transcendence, evoked through the ritual of fire, smoke, cinder connecting hands, lungs, breath, and mouth. It procures a little rush of infinity that alters perspectives, however slightly, and permits, albeit briefly, an ecstatic standing outside of oneself...
...heart, oral gratification. There is, shall we say, a certain sexual implication in putting our lips around a long, thin object, ingesting its essence into the mouth, perhaps swallowing it, then expelling it. Put this way, the act of smoking is, literally, a blow job. And the ritual "smoke after sex" - is this not the reward for all the exertion of coupling? For some smokers, is getting down not the foreplay to lighting up? As Freud or someone said: a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke...
...From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Top Shelf; 2000) Alan Moore, who became famous for his sophisticated superhero tales, put all of his considerable comic-writing skill into this re-telling of the Jack the Ripper murders as a mystic ritual covered up by the Queen. The mediocre movie version suffered particularly from its lack of Eddie Campbell's masterful black and white images that perfectly conjure up the fog-shrouded streets of gaslight London. Full Review
...stacks of Widener. Using John Harvard’s foot as a urinal. Pretending to like the Red Sox. At a school so heavily steeped in tradition, custom and ritual abound, touching most—if not every—aspect of student life in some...