THE TRANSCENDENT “INTERMEDIARY” STATUS OF TWINS (COMMENT).
THE TRANSCENDENT “INTERMEDIARY” STATUS OF TWINS (COMMENT). Dick Weisfelder asked in a comment on my August 15 post; “Can you comment on your personal experience of this transcendent “intermediary” status? I’ve always known there was something different about you two!” I don’t have an answer to Dick’s question. I have never felt that, as a twin, I had a special relationship with birds—or salmon—or vegetables.
Levi-Strauss was one of the most influential intellectuals of the last 50 years, a member of the French Academy. The wikipedia article on him calls him: “one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought, where his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, as well as sociology and philosophy.” I have bumped into references to him often. I once sat on a plane next to an anthropology graduate student who was working on a dissertation based on Levi-Strauss and I asked questions for the entire six hour plane ride. And yet I don’t understand anything of his ideas, including his ideas about twins.
Too bad! I hoped your series of posts was leading us to a stunning revelation! I was ready to become a disciple, but I guess I’ll have to go downstairs and do the laundry after all.