an orifice by any other name

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 13 05:44:17 CDT 2003


"... mouths, eyes, sometimes other orifices also." (CL.79).

Fr. Chaung Tzu's "Fit For Emperors and Kings"

A companion to the humanly useless is the concept of disorder (chaos). 

Hear, Chaung Tzu depicts an emperor from the central region-Hun-tun or
Chaos that does not have the customary orifices-seven. Over seven days
his
friends from the south and the North sea drill seven holes in him. On
the
seventh day he dies. 

Now they know how many holes it takes...

In the Chronicles of _The Reign of Charles IX_, Mérimée tells of some
soldiers sitting at table at a country inn on a Friday.. They are
hungry. And while deliberating whether they will end up in hell if they
eat meat on a Friday they happen to see a priest near by and they invite
him to baptize their "godchildren" one is to be named perch and another
carp. Needless to say. the  "godchildren" are chickens. 

Celver. But will the soldiers be saved from hell? 

What's in a name? 

Depends on what we say a Sign is. 

It's a common enough trope in fabliaux
those that don't and those that know 
that a cunt by any other name is an asshole.



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