...Anderson calls the "lair of the skull," an apposite correspondent to "Headfield." Anderson imagines that each communicant is well aware that the ceremony he...daily or half-daily intervals throughout the calendar. At the same time, the newspaper reader, observing exact replicas of his own paper being consumed by...

...reading, "the almost precisely simultaneous consumption ('imagining') of the newspaper-as-fiction." Each communicant is well aware that the ceremony he...replicated simultaneously by thousands (or millions) of those whose existence he is confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion. Furthermore,...

...performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremonv he performs is being replicated simultaneously by...calendar. What more vivid figure for the secular, historicallv clocked, imagined community can be envisioned? At the same time, the newspaper reader,...

...for morning prayers — is paradoxical. It is performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...the slightest notion. Furthermore, this ceremony is 24 Chapter 2 incessantly repeated at daily or half-daily intervals throughout the calendar. What more...

...'substitute for morning prayers', in which, although sitting alone in the privacy of his own head, 'each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion.'27 Leaving aside the interesting fact that the strictly modern phenomenon of nationalism is...

...reader of a morning paper, for example, is 'well aware that the ceremony he performs is being replicated by thousands (or millions) of others of whose existence...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion' (Anderson, 1991: 35). Secondly, the imagined community is narrated, Anderson claims, in a characteristic...

...massdistributed, daily newspaper: “performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull” but in which “each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...simultaneously by thousands (or millions) of others The theoretical point seems well illustrated, but closer consideration here will reveal a by now familiar...

...substitute for morning prayers - is paradoxicaL ft is performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skulL Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony he performs is being replicated simultaneously bv thousands for millions) of others of whose existence he is confident, yet of whose identity he has...

..."a mass ceremony" of shared reading: "It is performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...of whose identity he has not the slightest notion." Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 22, 35. 7. Goodman noted the unifying possibilities of the business...

...Anderson's account of newspaper reading: ' [it] is performed in silent privacy, in the lair of the skull. Yet each communicant is well aware that the ceremony...confident, yet of whose identity he has not the slightest notion."3 This paradoxical joining of a sense of public knowledge and shared understanding with the...