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	The Essay, Julia Cohen
		Regardless of the questions which may arise concerning the authenticity of this text, the depiction given of a Song Physiognomist is amazingly true to the picture that Chinese historians paint of this time and practice both.
		Therefore, a kind of “fluid hierarchy” of the importance of physical features existed, reflecting in some senses the general “fluid hierarchy” of Confucian culture which was characterized by a tension between a pre-established hierarchical system on the one hand, a meritocratic system, based on one’s actions rather than birth, on the other.
		A further point is that the advice of a Physiognomist would often take the form of moral counseling, such as was the case of Ming when he warned against both frivolity and greed.
	prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu /past/1999-2000/cohen.html (4761 words)

	The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As physiognomist, Cley practiced a sanctioned, twisted science that condemned men and women to death for the size of their foreheads or thrust of their chins.
		And the only antidote lies in a terrible place the former physiognomist fears to enter but knows he must: in the surreal house of a madman's dreams, imagination, and remembrances; in the intricate palace of memories Drachton Below has scrupulously constructed in the stygian depths of his mind.
		And the old Cley cannot be buried until he meets once more with a woman he gravely disfigured - who, in turn, served as catalyst to his transformation from man of "science" to folk healer to wilderness hunter - and she waits in the true village of Wenau in the hidden heart of the Beyond.
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=8&p1=1174 (630 words)

	20th WCP: Semiotics of Human Body and Character: Aristotle's Logical Foundation of Physiognomics
		Physiognomists also try to establish such correlations by several methods, all of which are applied in the Aristotelian treatise: comparison with animals or with ethnic groups, the analogy to gender difference (i.e.
		This triadic relation of the sign means for physiognomics: every body trait is nothing but a mere body trait, unless an interpretant regards it as a sign for a particular character trait – by a process of semiosis based on whichever theory or method the interpretant, i.e.
		Thus the triadic relation of the sign stresses the overall importance of the physiognomist: without him, there is no triadic sign, i.e.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciVogt.htm (1605 words)

	wotmania: feed your wheel of time addiction
		In the Well-Built City, Cley is the perfect judge and jury, the infallible arbiter of life and death, for he is trained in the art/science of physiognomy.
		In the sequel, Memoranda, the ex-Physiognomist experiences one of the strangest adventures in all of fantasy fiction when he is forced to literally enter and explore the mad mind of his dying master, the murderous tyrant Drachton Below.
		The demon Misrix uses the Physiognomist's powerful drug, sheer beauty, to watch his friend's journey, even as he pursues his own equally dangerous quest, the search for his humanity.
	www.wotmania.com /storeseries.asp?ID=413 (620 words)

	Amazon.com: The Physiognomy: Books: Jeffrey Ford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cley (the Physiognomist who goes from antihero to hero during the course of the book) is certainly a complete character, and I felt there was certainly enough of the Master, Arla, and the Traveler to go around.
		This is basically a dystopian novel, in which Physiognomist Cley, an exalted servant under the tyrannical Master of the Well-Built City, is sent to a crummy village to examine the locals using the Physiognomy.
		Here we witness as Cley, renowned physiognomist of the Well-Built City -- the urban brainchild of overlord genius Drachton Below --, is sent to the rural landscapes at the edge of the known world on a trifling mission he's not very pleased to carry out.
	www.amazon.com /Physiognomy-Jeffrey-Ford/dp/0380793326 (2715 words)

	Domino - Ross King - Penguin Group (USA)
		My mother, fortunately, set little store by such pagan superstition, being the wife of a clergyman; and this indeed was the profession she was content to reserve for me despite these intimations of future grandeur.
		What of my own lot in life he may have glimpsed in the blots, blemishes and truculent expressions of my youthful visage he did not reveal, but in any event he was agreed with my mother on the choice of my future occupation.
		At eighteen years William had been purchased a commission in the army, but this career was soon terminated in battle beneath the falls of the Mississippi by the musket-ball of an Indian chieftain.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780142003367,00.html (2297 words)

	UNESCO - Tale of Genji - Part 1 - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the age of seven, an embassy came from Korea.
		Hearing that among the emissaries was a skilled physiognomist, the emperor would have liked to summon him for consultation.
		He decided, however, to send Genji to the Koro mansion, where the party was lodged.
	webworld.unesco.org /genji/en/part_1/1-4.shtml (232 words)

	Book Information: Physiognomy, the :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		And in the hands of an expert like Physiognomist Cley, this solemn intelligence delivers perfect justice from which fortunes are claimed or lost, careers are shaped or shattered, lives are continued or cut away.
		A man who commands such titanic forces may ignore the dark pools of arrogance and corruption which lie closer at hand - but only for a time.
		Very soon, Cley will discover the truth about himself and his profession, as his world of privilege dissolves into a nightmarish odyssey, careening toward a fate not even the great physiognomist can predict.
	www.iblist.com /book24836.htm (165 words)

	The Other World, 29: Is There a Doctor in the House? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The philosopher said yes, all but dessert, and that the physiognomist had given him permission to share ours.
		Let me tell you, then, that health is treated more casually in your world than ours, and the health care of this world is nothing to sneeze at.
		He is more or less what you might call a doctor, except that he cares only for the healthy.
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue45/cyrano29.html (1575 words)

	Jeffrey Ford Memoranda Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		In 'Memoranda', Jeffrey Ford explores memory and recall using the 'well-built' fantasy landscape he designed for 'The Physiognomy'.
		'Memoranda' is the second tale of Cley, the physiognomist, now part of a gentle agrarian community.
		Unfortunately, the citizens of this community are falling into a sleep from which they cannot be roused.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/ford-memoranda.htm (383 words)

	Amazon.com Books: Physiognomist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Faces: What they mean and how to read them : being a practical work of reference for all who wish to understand the meaning of the features of the face...
		The Physiognomist; The Improvisatore; and The German's tale] by John Galt (Unknown Binding - 1825)
		Lavater the physiognomist, or, Not a bad judge: A comic drama, in two acts by J. R PlancheÌ (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1865)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Physiognomist&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (175 words)

	Gil Blas - CH. IX. -- An extraordinary companion at supper; and an account of their conversation.
		He answered gravely: If I look at you with fixed attention, it is only to admire the prodigious variety of adventures which are chronicled in the features of your face.
		Far more deeply imbued in science than a mere physiognomist, answered the monk, I found prophecies on my observations which have never been belied by the event.
		My skill in palmistry is no less, and I will set my oracles against the surest of antiquity, after comparing the inspection of the hand with that of the face.
	www.exclassics.com /gilblas/gil66.htm (993 words)

	Suetonius: Titus 2-3, 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was brought up at court in company with Britannicus [*son of Claudius] and taught the same subjects by the same masters.
		At that time, so they say, a physiognomist was brought in by Narcissus, the freedman of Claudius, to examine Britannicus and declared most positively that he would never become emperor; but that Titus, who was standing near by at the time, would surely rule.
		The boys were so intimate too, that it is believed that when Britannicus drained the fatal draught,a Titus, who was reclining at his side, also tasted of the potion and for a long time suffered from an obstinate disorder.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/suet-titus.html (603 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Britannicus
		The promise of his honorific name did not guarantee that all would go well.
		The story was told that when Britannicus was a child, a physiognomist was called in to read his character and destiny from his physical characteristics.
		The pseudo-scientist declared, contrary to expectation, that Britannicus would never be emperor but that another child who was present would someday fill that role.
	www.roman-emperors.org /britty.htm (1522 words)

	Contemplation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yet he used sometimes to stop suddenly in the house, or even in the yard or street, and would stand still for ten minutes, lost in thought.
		A physiognomist studying his face would have said that there was no thought in it, no reflection, but only a sort of contemplation.
		There is a remarkable picture by the painter Kramskoy, called 'Contemplation.' There is a forest in winter, and on a roadway through the forest, in absolute solitude, stands a peasant in a torn kaftan and bark shoes.
	www.unc.edu /~dmarkell/kramskoy.html (310 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| MEMORANDA by Jeffrey Ford
		In the critically praised THE PHYSIOGNOMY, a New York Times Notable Book of 1997, Physiognomist Cley chronicled the fall of the Well-Built City, created from the mind of the evil Master, Drachton Below, and the inception of the independent city of Weanu.
		In MEMORANDA, Cley, no longer the Physiognomist but a humble citizen, realizes that the antidote to the sleeping disease that has infected the people of Wenau is locked in symbolic form in a new mnemonic "palace" in the sleeping Below's memory.
		With the help of a demon, Cley must venture into the city of Below to search for the symbolic form that holds the secret of the antidote.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/memoranda.asp (378 words)

	Galaxy Bookshop - Physiognomy
		And few within its confines hold the power of Physiognomist Cley.
		With scalpels, calipers and the other instruments of his science, Cley can divine good and evil, determine character and intelligence, uncover dark secrets, and foretell a person's destiny.
		But now the Master has sent the great physiognomist out of the City on a seemingly trivial assignment in the rural hinterland where, removed from Below's omnipresent scrutiny, even the most loyal servant of logic can fall prey to seductions of the flesh and spirit.
	www.galaxybooks.com.au /items.asp?id=240519 (172 words)

	Physiognomy - Face Readings and Psychic Definition
		The use of physiognomy is attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle though earlier sources suggest that physiognomy was known to Pythagoras, Socrates and Hippocrates.
		In the sixteenth century physiognomists were tortured as heretics.
		The definition of Physiognomy and physiognomist is part of our online psychic glossary.
	www.psychics.co.uk /psychicreading/psychic-readings-physiognomy.html (478 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE PHYSIOGNOMY by Jeffrey Ford
		And few within its confines hold the power of Physiognomist First Class Cley.
		With scalpels, calipers, and the other instruments of his science, Cley can divine good and evil, determine character and intelligence, uncover dark secrets and foretell a person's destiny, through the careful study of facial and bodily features.
		But now the Master has ordered the great physiognomist out of the City on a seemingly trivial assignment into the rural hinterlands.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/physiognomy.asp (417 words)

	Spectator, June 8, 1711
		Socrates's Disciples, that they might put this Artist to the Trial, carried him to their Master, whom he had never seen before, and did not know [he was then in company with him.
		But Socrates told them, that the Principles of his Art might be very true, notwithstanding his present Mistake; for that he himself was naturally inclined to those particular Vices which the Physiognomist had discovered in his Countenance, but that he had conquered the strong Dispositions he was born with by the Dictates of Philosophy.
		5, he says that the physiognomist Zopyrus pronounced Socrates stupid and dull, because the outline of his throat was not concave, but full and obtuse.
	tabula.rutgers.edu /spectator/text/june1711/no86.html (1213 words)

	Chen Tuan: Discussions and Translations by Livia Kohn
		It began with my dissertation (Leben und Legende des Chen Tuan, 1981), which focused on questions of legend development and the problem of what “immortality” meant as a religious ideal in the Song dynasty.
		The three discussions summarize my dissertation in English and present materials discussed in the article on Chen Tuan as physiognomist.
		They are not mere reprints, although they pick up the same materials, but add additional reflections and integrate more recent studies into the discussion.
	www.threepinespress.com /edao.chentuan.php (673 words)

	Katie Kanyamas & Kocot: Physiognomic Horoscopes: 4Q186, 4Q561
		These two texts may represent a variety of divination, known as physiognomy, in which a person's personality or fortune may be read from their physical appearance.
		They contain what appear to be a series of short body type descriptions which may be intended as a sort of catalogue of physical types which might be useful to the physiognomist.
		Another possibility is that these are 'prophetic' descriptions of the body types of important biblical or eschatological personages.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~humm/Resources/StudTxts/4Q186!.html (551 words)

	Dienekes' Anthropology Blog: The Roman Preference for Dark Eyes
		If light eyes were valued in Ancient Rome then ridiculing a caesia, or saying that a girl was thought beautiful despite various negative characteristics, including not very dark eyes, would sound absurd to the poets' audience.
		I also note that the Latin physiognomist Loxus also gives dark eyes to the ideal female.
		Also, there is the testimony of the Latin physiognomist Loxus who explicitly associates dark eyes with beauty in women.
	dienekes.ifreepages.com /blog/archives/000371.html (2985 words)

	Jeffrey Ford The Beyond Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		In 'The Physiognomy', Jeffrey Ford created The Well-Built City in his own mind, in the readers' minds, and in the mind of Drachton Below, the erstwhile Builder.
		Physiognomist Cley was merely a player, albeit an important one who brought about the fall of the City in the first volume, and learned to live outside of it in 'Memoranda'.
		The second volume also introduced the narrator of this delightful third book, Misrix the demon.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/ford-the_beyond.htm (520 words)

	Sample Discussion Topics for The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
		How consistent is Bronte with the use of this metaphor, and why do you think she uses it?
		Helen says that she is an excellent physiognomist: someone who can determine a person's character by their looks.
		Do you think Bronte supports the science of physiognomy, or is she critiquing it in her novel?
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/bronte/abronte/lq.html (754 words)

	Chapter Chapter 17 of Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
		From them I learn what I asserted just now, that nature generally imprints such a portraiture of the mind in the countenance, that a skilful physiognomist will rarely be deceived.
		I presume you have never read the story of Socrates to this purpose, and therefore I will tell it you.
		A certain physiognomist asserted of Socrates, that he plainly discovered by his features that he was a rogue in his nature.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/22/2394/27461/2.html (399 words)

	Fire-Tongue, by Sax Rohmer; Nicol Brinn Has A Visitor Page 1
		One very familiar with this strange and taciturn man might have observed that his sallow features looked even more gaunt than usual.
		But for any trace of emotion in that stoic face the most expert physiognomist must have sought in vain.
		Behind the motionless figure the Alaskan ermine and Manchurian leopards stared glassily across the room.
	www.pagebypagebooks.com /Sax_Rohmer/Fire_Tongue/Nicol_Brinn_Has_A_Visitor_p1.html (494 words)

	Adam Clarke Comments on 1 John 3:7-10
		Perhaps my reader will recollect the story of the physiognomist, who, coming into the place where Socrates was delivering a lecture, his pupils, wishing to put the principles of the man’s science to proof, desired him to examine the face of their master, and say what his moral character was.
		After a full contemplation of the philosopher’s visage, he pronounced him "the most gluttonous, drunken, brutal, and libidinous old man that he had ever met." As the character of Socrates was the reverse of all this, his disciples began to insult the physiognomist.
		Socrates interfered, and said, "The principles of his science may be very correct, for such I was, but I have conquered it by my philosophy." O ye Christian divines!
	members.fortunecity.com /faithofgod/aclarke-1John3-7-10.htm (731 words)

	Weekly Face Readings Set National Precedent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rose Rosetree, America’s leading specialist in deeper perception, is slotted to appear as a regular guest for WENS Radio in Indianapolis.
		To our knowledge, it's a national precedent, having a physiognomist regularly go on the air to interpret physical data like ear angles and nose thrust.
		But that's what Rosetree will use to comment on people in the news.
	www.expertclick.com /NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=5441 (323 words)

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