When a hush descends on Chekhov's restless country estate dwellers — as it often does, abrupt and unbidden — the air remains alive with crosscurrents of thought, clashing chords of longing and the steady thrum of time passing.
This action would seem to derive from the concept of a "clash of civilisations", a school of thought that Islamist extremists subscribe to, since they, we understand, view America, or even the whole of western civilisation, as a hegemonous monolith; an enemy to be feared and, if possible, destroyed.
Now, the two schools of thought are clashing again, over new research showing that occupants of Border Cave in southern Africa, who were ancestors of the San Bushmen hunter-gatherers in the area today, were already engaged in relatively modern behavior at least 44,000 years ago, twice as long ago as previously thought.
Despite their clashing cultures, despite interruptions, broken trains of thought, conflicts of intention, one sensed a constant tilt toward community.
(How Kit relishes the thought of a clash of class cultures at the wedding!) We know quite a bit about Kit — that her Daddy was in insurance, and that they made enough money to live in the suburbs but not anywhere very grand, and that they've been abroad (which used to have more cachet, especially if you'd been to Paris, the center of the sophisticated world).
(How Kit relishes the thought of a clash of class cultures at the wedding!) We know quite a bit about Kit — that her Daddy was in insurance, and that they made enough money to live in the suburbs but not anywhere very grand, and that they've been abroad (which used to have more cachet_,_ especially if you'd been to Paris, the center of the sophisticated world).
Come, leaders of thought!
The influence of thought".
