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“When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.”

Men Book Soul Care Law Order Study Atheism Teaching Subjects Events Miracle Ancient Positive Atheism Accepted Occasions Conception Primitive Miraculous Literal Doubted

Author:Clarence Darrow

“The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents.”

“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”

May Doe Country Able Purpose Social Events Circumstances Conflict Eating Remains Hunger Tragic Protest Symbolic Literal Starvation Metaphoric

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”

Certain Events Advantage Metaphor Literal

Author:Mason Cooley

“The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important... The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.”

Trying Important Action Events Figures Movement Arms Gestures Twists Literal Freeze Exaggerated

Author:Leon Golub

“In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.”

Reality Events Rose Psychological Narrative Twilight Grounded Spectacular Literal

Author:Gregory Crewdson