Planet Literature

Conversantions with Paula 8

„Are you seriously suggesting that the more people there are in a community, the less democracy is possible? If so, you might as well abolish democracy altogether!“

Picture: Ceremonial kava drinking on Tonga (kava: plant with a relaxing, slightly inebriating effect);from: Buschan, Georg: Die Sitten der Völker: Liebe, Ehe, Heirat, Geburt, Religion, Aberglaube, Lebensgewohnheiten, Kultureigentümlichkeiten, Tod und Bestattung bei allen Völkern der Erde, Abb. 48. (The customs of peoples: love, marriage, childbirth, religion, superstition, habits of life, cultural peculiarities, death and burial among all peoples of theearth, Fig. 48). Stuttgart 1914: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft