But the continuity of this identity exists in, and only in, its perpetual salvagings and reconstructions in the face of repeated disruptions and discontinuities.

[…] it should be remembered that their poets and rabbis of the middle ages were contemporary with the Scotists and Thomists, with the pseudo-platonism and peripateticism of Christendom.

Another is that I myself identify as Otherkin—a wolf therianthrope, to be exact—and I find this particular subculture to be absolutely fascinating.

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