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I have taken out the bits about "Russian doll" because apparently it offended some people, who feel the analogy is not well-taken since the Russian doll has nothing to do with "character masks" per se. I've done most of the work on the article I want to do for now. I should really not have made the page before I had finished it, but when I had published the pilot it triggered off some more relevant ideas. It was just a tat difficult to write it, properly User:Jurriaan 17 August 2010 01:50 (UTC)

Bourdieu

"The difficulty in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood. That is why you sometimes have to begin with the most difficult things in order to understand the easier things properly." - Pierre Bourdieu, Language & Symbolic Power. Polity Press, 1991, p. 207.

Media Ecology Association

"Without a proper amount of solitude in our lives there is little time to reflect, or even consider, what the other might be thinking or feeling. It is in solitude that we are able to peel away the layered masks we wear and come to a place of self revelation where we “see” ourselves in true light, for we cannot know who we are without spending time reflecting, contemplating, thinking about who we are in relation to others. It is there, springing from regular solitude and silence, that we are better prepared to bring an authentic self to the table of relationship. Without it there is little room for intimacy. These interior activities are natural and essential to the flourishing of the human soul, but they are thwarted daily, not only by the psychological means of self-protection we exhibit by closing ourselves off from others, but by the need to make a living and exist in the world. Indeed, today, these very human needs are exacerbated by the deluge of data that comes our way through our personal mobile media and overall communication environment.(...) Subsumed by the din of noisy crowds, machinery, and other environmental intrusions, the spoken word hangs like the lingering, last leaf of autumn. In so many ways it seems to await a final gust from the north, dangling in the wind of the technophilic love affair with digitality. The antidote? Find the quiet places in the busyness of life; protect them. Seek to be with others. Determine to be fully engaged. Enjoy being fully present. Speak." - Stephanie Bennett, Palm Beach Atlantic University, "Seeking the Sound of Silence: Human Presence and the Acoustics of Solitude." Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association, Volume 11, 2010, p. 63-64.[1]

Lying eyes

You can't hide / your lyin' eyes / And your smile / is a thin disguise / I thought by now / you'd realize / There ain't no way / to hide your lyin eyes.

- the Eagles, Lying eyes (1975).

Book

By popular demand, I am working on a publishable book on character masks and maskings, which goes into much more detail and depth than the article I have presented here, but it will take a while yet (I am not a rich academic with a research staff and research grants that pay for my costs). User:Jurriaan 19 August 2012 19:14 (UTC)