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No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

Source: Tristes Tropiques, ch. 1, 1955.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss, (Nov 28 1908-2009), French social anthropologist; Founder of structural anthropology who wrote several books including From Honey to Ashes, 1967.

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