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I am not talking here about the researchers, to the extreme modesty, the simplicity of the character, his self-effacing end.

— Fanny Colonna

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My article on repetition (Colonna, 1980b) is precisely an analysis of these techniques used to shape thought.

His presence legitimized the ceremony, through the role he played in channeling the sacred.

He acted as an arbiter in cases of marital disputes and family conflicts.

The teacher’s straight trousers and white shirt, the bench and blackboard, the students seated in rows, the discipline of bodies.

Both types of education left a mark on me the two bodily postures as well as the revelation of the gap that existed between them.

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