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Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Augustine divides the sign into natural signs and given signs
Augustine divides the sign into the two main classes of natural signs (signa naturalia) and given signs (signa data). “Natural signs are those which, apart from any intention or desire of using them as signs, do yet lead to the knowledge of something else”,[8] as, for example…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Cindered
The weeks of the city I’d thought I was beginning to know—the Bombay of temples, bazaars, restaurants, and new friends—had cindered in the fires of that public rage.