Yet, as Douglas already noted, ritual does not only function and empower through supercession or surcession of ambiguity: its transformative powers are most effective when the ambiguities of anomaly or the chaotic are incorporated, emphasized and employed within ritual;

And what conversation becomes then is a sustained strip or tract of referencings, each referencing tending to bear, but often deviously, some retrospectively perceivable connection to the immediately preceding one.

He worked in secret headquarters at Soochow, with the assistance of German fortifications experts. A plan to reorganize the coastal defense, especially the Yangtze River (originally largely defended by very old guns) at Kiangyin, Chinkiang, and Nanking, was being actively pursued.

A difficulty aroze about the northern point of partition ; the duke of York’s grant making the northernmoſt branch of Delaware bay or river to be in forty one degrees and forty minutes of latitude ; and declaring a line from this point to the latitude of forty one on Hudſon’s river, to be the northern boundary of New Jerſey.