They take his contention as their starting-point for a passionate defence of knowledge as more than facts and information, to be stored or downloaded, but not absorbed, questioned or created.
Subsequent issues omit the editorial board and credit Bataille alone as general secretary, which indicates a more managerial or administrative position, leaving the absorbing question of editorial control unresolved.
Young children are not always equipped, as most adults are, with the critical tools to analyse and probe information – what is presented as fact is often absorbed without question.
By a kind of literary osmosis that is possible only when you're young, I absorbed without question Renault's idealization of severe, undemonstrative men; I wasn't yet able to recognize, in the author's clichés of gay effeminacy, certain unexamined prejudices of her own.
In his easy acceptance of what he saw as his fate — just as my father had accepted his childhood — I suddenly saw how I would never truly be able to communicate with him, this kind, gentle man whose blood I had inherited, whose culture I had absorbed without question.
As I absorbed those questions, a famous picture came to my mind.
Having said that, we also must not be so absorbed by questions of statutory construction that we ignore the revolutionary political and technological events that are transforming the world in which our laws must function.
In ways similar to, say, Salman Rushdie, Caetano, who turned 60 earlier this year, came of age in the developing world absorbed with questions of center (America and England, in his line of work) and periphery (everywhere else) -- of where "hereness" and "thereness" met or might meet.
-- that makes his tale endlessly absorbing, a question this film bypasses too glibly.
In a rare, quiet moment, I would be sitting in her office and, closing my steno pad, I would say, "I want to ask you a question about 'unnatural world, whorled, begotten, petaled.' Why did you choose those adjectives: 'whorled, begotten, petaled'?" and Z. would lean forward, pause for a moment to absorb the question, and answer in a voice that told me how much my interest mattered to her.
