Section 3 of 6
Tokens
Rings and the other objects that stood for the thing.
Entries in this section4 entries
- 3.1A band with no beginningA plain circle chosen because it has no start and no end — a reading applied to the object long after people had been using rings for entirely practical reasons.
- 3.2That particular fingerThe vein-to-the-heart explanation is anatomically wrong and very old. Which is the interesting part.
- 3.3Broken and halvedTokens deliberately split in two so the halves had to be brought back together.
- 3.4Paper, then wood, then tinThe anniversary materials are a commercial list of surprisingly recent invention.
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