Date: 2009-06-24 01:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pictsy.livejournal.com
The ceremony (or "this iteration of the ceremony") is only important because people say it is.

Exactly! It is by the intention and agreement of the people that this moment is the moment of transformation. That's the magical thing about social constructs! But it would be silly and sad to just get together and have someone say, "Three... two... one... okay, now you're married," so I think a ceremony is a nice way of framing the moment.
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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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