09-06-2019, 09:20 AM | #51 | |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
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But the frisson between private wealth and popular acclaim could give some basis for a culturally specific quirk. Maybe something along the lines of the social or political benefits of lending one's artwork to a museum, as opposed to keeping it secured in a vault. ...and then the iconoclasts turn up.
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09-06-2019, 10:11 AM | #52 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Sure. I don't know about that either. I am proposing a culture where that has an unusual significance.
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09-06-2019, 10:13 AM | #53 | |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
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As a side note it is a way of "ennobleing" money gotten from a mundane sourse. Thus instead of putting it in a bank where it just gets-more money, he gets an income out of art and art is cool. It is really a similar idea to the idea of buying lots and lots of fancy jewelry and just wearing your wealth but having something to liquidate if there is a pogram and you have to go on the run. And in the meantime having something to wear to a ball. Except in the case I describe, while it is sitting there it is actually taking in money.
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09-06-2019, 10:25 AM | #54 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Everyone except the lowest level of society wears a custom-designed mask when out in public. And the lowest level just wear a bandanna to cover their lower face. Going bare-faced is an act of great intimacy or indecency.
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09-06-2019, 11:37 AM | #55 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Corollary: The registry of masks is a massively sacred place.
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09-06-2019, 11:59 AM | #56 | |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
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Some other corollaries: There is a Mystery Religion where masks are opened. Masks are taken on in a Rite of Passage. The design is discovered after a Vision Quest. When a deed is performed a badge is placed on the mask.
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09-06-2019, 12:28 PM | #57 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
How do people who constantly wear masks over their lower faces eat, especially in public? dinners have been a form of socialization of millennia. Though I suppose splitting up by gender could work, if its a modesty thing.
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09-06-2019, 12:36 PM | #58 |
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: Curious Local Customs
That's one possibility. Or the mask could leave the nose and lower face open.
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09-06-2019, 02:09 PM | #59 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Two possibilities are suggested by works of Jack Vance. In The Moon Moth people of the mask-wearing class (i.e. not slaves) ate alone except as a very initimate romantic thing. In Marune (which had a taboo on ingestion rather than facial exposure, but is still suggestive) people ate alone for convenience, but for social meals they put food into their mouths behind screens or fans.
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09-06-2019, 04:59 PM | #60 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Couldn't they just have a nasal bridge that allowed them to be bent creating a gap between face and mask? That should create enough of a space to put eating utensils under and through.
We cover our lower faces when we need to talk with food in our mouths, after all.
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