Actors, Directors, Roles, Cues, Meanings, Identities: Further Thoughts on ‘Anomie’1*

It has been by custom and law determined

for the eye, what it is supposed to see and not to see,

for the ear, what it is supposed to hear and not to hear,

for the tongue, what it is supposed to say and not to say,

for the hand, what it is supposed to do and not to do,

for the foot, whither it is supposed to proceed and not to proceed,

for the heart, what it is supposed to want and not to want.