In Japan, teeth blackening is known as ohaguro (お歯黒). The tradition was practiced until around 1911. To blacken their teeth women used a dye of sumac-leaf gall, sake and iron. At the time women wore chalky white make up. At night, by candlelight, as in the case of geisha, a woman’s face glimmered magically. A common belief was that blackened teeth differentiated humans from animals.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become one himself. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
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Nostalgia
The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return
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