Archimedean Local Fields

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    To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self- congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
    Clifford Geertz (b. 1926)

    This scene was supposed to be in a saloon, but the censor cut it out. It’ll play just as well.
    Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)