Still Life with Anal & Dead Peckerheads
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 12 09:29:25 CDT 2002
ANALYSIS: Abbr. anal. 1. The separation of an intellectual or
substantial whole into its constituent parts for individual study. 2.
Chemistry. a. The separation of a substance into its constituent
elements to determine either their nature (qualitative analysis) or
their proportions (quantitative analysis). b. The stated findings of
such a separation or determination. 3. Mathematics. a. A branch of
mathematics principally involving differential and integral calculus,
sequences, and series and concerned with limits and convergence. b. The
method of proof in which a known truth is sought as a consequence of a
series of deductions from that which is the thing to be proved. 4.
Linguistics. The use of function words such as prepositions, pronouns,
or auxiliary verbs instead of inflectional endings to express a
grammatical relationship; for example, the cover of the dictionary
instead of the dictionary's cover. 5. Psychoanalysis. 6. Systems
analysis. [Medieval Latin, from Greek analusis, a dissolving, from
analuein, to undo: ana-, throughout; see ANA- + luein, to loosen.]
"No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting
into--" GR.3
"the soil's stringing of rings and chains in nets only God can tell the
meshes of, have seen the fruit thrive often to the lengths of a foot and
a half, yes amazing but true."
The soils! The earth's!
Giant fruits and vegetables, amazing!
Where in M&D do they discuss DNA, the 2ble helix? Can't recall the page
number.
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