an orifice by any other name

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 06:44, Terrance wrote:
> "... mouths, eyes, sometimes other orifices also." (CL.79).

We blithely speak of vale and dell
Be it done for peak as well.




I stand before the window and I pare
My fingernails and vaguely am aware
Of certain flinching likeness: the thumb,
Our grocer's son; the index, lean and glum
College astronomer Starover Blue;
The middle fellow, a tall priest I knew;
The feminine fourth finger, an old flirt;
And little pinky clinging to her skirt.
And I make mouths as I snip off the thin
Strips of what Aunt Maud used to call "scarf-skin."

lines 185-94

comparative concavities and convexities in Pynchon and Nabokov


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> 
> 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.