Eye - 26 February 2021
From a welcoming aura to a cover filled with many colours
A welcoming aura
An off-the-cuff comment lingering in a footnote caught the eye of Stuart Yates, of Bournemouth Coastal Area Meeting.
Behave, written by neurobiologist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky, explores the biology behind why we do the things we do.
Following a section in which he writes about religious sensitivities, what is sacred, and how people respond to sanctity being violated, Stuart was amused by the following footnote: ‘If I were to find myself in the middle of a religious service and suddenly suffer from hideously loud, malodorous flatulence, I’d sure hope I was hanging out with Quakers rather than, say, a bunch of the boys from the Taliban…’
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