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Re: CHAT: Of high and noble things ...

From:Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>
Date:Monday, April 15, 2002, 3:41
Andreas sekalge:
>Are the identifications "high"="noble" and "low"="vulgar, common" more
or
>less universal, or just a feature of Western traditions?
They're logical anywhere that powerful people strut and weak people bow and scrape. They're logical wherever fortresses are built on hills if possible and farmers are poor. Thus, they'd be logical in China as much as in Hungary.