writing and speaking. Historical Background The Odyssey is considered “the greatest adventure story of all time.” 1. The Trojan War: The Wooden Horse ~ (a historical myth) The Greeks were desperately trying to take down the city of Troy. One night, they burned their camp and pretended to be sailing home, leaving on the beach a gigantic wooden horse: probably an armored tower on wheels such as was often used for storming high fortifications. Inside its hollow belly were soldiers hidden: Odysseus
Rastafari movement. 2. Jamaica—Religious life and customs. I. Title. BL2532.R37 E36 2002 299′.676—dc21 2002074897 v To Donnaree, my wife, and Donnisa, my daughter, the two persons around whom my life revolves; and to the ancestors whose struggles have enabled us to survive and thrive This page intentionally left blank Foreword One of the most useful things about Ennis Edmonds's Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers is that it correctly traces the connection between the emergence
serpent that had struck him withdrawing content into its hole surrounded by the newborn grass. And there are the rustic folk: Allapicha, the mullah, who considers modern schools the devil 's institutions teaching the king 's angular script and the kafir 's sciences and is a potential foe for Ravi ending up as the school 's peon; Nizam Ali, an orphan brought up by Allapicha, now a Khazi supporting Ravi, the self-appointed representative of Sayed Mian Sheikh, the ghost of whose lean horse still gallops in
Oxford University Press, 1974. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-226-52130-3 (pbk.) 1. Motion pictures—Semiotics. 2. Motion pictures— Philosophy. I. Title. PN1995.M4513 1991 791.43 '014—dc20 90-46965 C1P The French edition of Christian Metz 's Essais sur la signification au cinema, volume 1, was published by Editions Klincksieck in 1971, © Editions Klincksieck, 1968. ΘThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence
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