Meaning of lawkeeping | Babel Free

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The act of preserving the law.

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Examples

““Secundra Bagh” operates as a historical trope in just this still-vital dialectical sense⟳: for a frozen instant that it marks as such (recall⟳ the twitch of diachrony registered in the moving horse), this image puts into contact⟳ two apparently exclusive narratives—the stories of imperial lawkeeping and genocidal extermination, of a “Mutiny” and a “War for Independence,” of “our” peacekeeping and “their” unredeemed death—without enabling the matter⟳ to be settled into any (self-identical) thesis or meaning.”

“Marasi is always talking about things like⟳ that, he thought. How the lawkeeping of the future will be about statistics, not shotguns. He tried to imagine⟳ a world where murders were prevented by careful civic planning, and found himself unable to see⟳ it. People would always kill⟳.”

“The 176 verses of Psalm 119 celebrate⟳ the greatness and privilege of lawkeeping. “I delight in your commands because I love⟳ them,” the writer exults (verse 47). For such legalists as the Pharisees, however, the law wasn’t kept out of love⟳ for God or man, but out of greed and fear.”

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