ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: "Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it."
-- Ambrose Bierce

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Kidney or Kind, eh?

3 Inductions:
  1. Spirit in artwork is always posited from outside.
  2. Spirits are never constrained by objectivity
  3. The interminable structure is the fetish, everything else is real.
– Hypernonimous Botch

So from another perspective, spirit is that aspect of being which, when found entangled with other beings, generates new and unique beings. Dada may be the pollen of all meaning, but is completely impotent without the egg and its mother or a dandelion and its nurturing pollinators. Such is chicken logic for birds and bees.

If we approach the juxtaposition 'kind kidney' etymologically but wish to initially avoid an entendre such as "Just kiddin', eh?" (we'll come back to that later, eh), presenting a literal definition of the word "Kidney" as some kind of bean to eat, quite beyond the structural-functional organ all pissed-off people are familiar with, then we find "kidney" is kind of like an egg (< kiden 'womb' + ey 'egg') and that's a fact of shape and function, no doubt, especially for chickens from whose single orifice, in a single direction, emerges both generative and nephritic or excremental exudate (only the generative principle flows both ways, whereas nutritive input digs a different hole altogether). So much for biology.

We are also taught a kid is a baby goat which big humans derogatorily applied to their own (not euphemistically, the word should rather be "malephemist" – after Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian physician and anatomist who discovered his corpuscles in other folks' kidneys. However the history (that is, philology) presents a different picture. Kid was originally the generic 'offspring', the literal generation of a kind or resemblance, as well as the thing, kith or kin that it came from.

To derogate is to refuse or abolish a standing law or decree of imposed order, which is also to say 'with impudent impunity' (all puns are intended, and rarely for punishment). The impish idea is still in the noodle or edge of a sword, to cleave, fold, spindle or mutilate, something of which even goat progeny are adepts – they call it play. A kid's natural inclination toward mayhem regarding your own regimentation, like clothes were once wind-dried on a line prior to folding, providing a trouble-spot should kids and goats be playing in the back yard, should be treated with kindness of redirection (should you want life wrinkle-free) another way to say "with kid-gloves" instead of the boxing sort and a reason Patience has traditionally been a name for aspiring mothers rather than kings. Perhaps we could learn a thing or two since no child cries out of turn, and never subjectively unmolested. Referring to compassion, Old English gecynde means "innate, natural" after joining the earth (ge) to a kind (cynde), a type that is formed when what's in it is shared.

Consider the following as a source of dada'ic generation (where truth be damned, every entendre is a necessary condition before any selection can be made for an unproductive habituation) and then tell me at least up through the middle ages all language was not poetic, to say the least, potentially comedic, and not always accidentally so, it was with some intension. a motive like kindling is to fire:

kidney
early 14c., of unknown origin, originally kidenere, perhaps a compound of O.E. cwið "womb" (see bowel) + ey "egg" (see egg (n.)) in reference to the shape of the organ. Figurative sense of "temperament" is from 1550s. Kidney bean is from 1540s, so called for its shape.

bowl
O.E. bolla "pot, cup, bowl," from P.Gmc. *bul- "a round vessel" (cf. O.N. bolle, O.H.G. bolla), from PIE *bhel- "to inflate, swell"

bowel
c.1300, from O.Fr. boele "intestines, bowels, innards" (12c., Mod.Fr. boyau), from M.L. botellus "small intestine," originally "sausage," dim. of botulus "sausage," a word borrowed from Oscan-Umbrian, from PIE *gwet-/*geut- "intestine" ...Greek poets, from Aeschylus down, regarded the bowels as the seat of the more violent passions such as anger and love, but by the Hebrews they were seen as the seat of tender affections, especially kindness, benevolence, and compassion.

bald
1297, ballede, probably from Celt. bal "white patch, blaze" especially on the head of a horse or other animal (from PIE base *bhel- "gleaming, white") + M.E. -ede adjectival suffix. The PIE base is also the source of Skt. bhalam "brightness, forehead," Gk. phalos "white," L. fulcia "coot" (so called for the white patch on its head), Alb. bale "forehead," O.C.S. belu "white," Lith. balnas "pale." The proper name Ballard probably means "bald head," cf. Wyclif "Stye up, ballard," where Coverdale translates "Come vp here thou balde heade" [2 Kg.2:23-24, where God kills 42 children for making fun of Elijah's lack of hair.]

edge (n.)
O.E. ecg "corner, edge, point," also "sword" (cf. ecgplega, lit. "edge play," ecghete, lit. "edge hate," both used poetically for "battle"), from P.Gmc. *agjo (cf. O.Fris. egg "edge;" O.S. eggia "point, edge;" M.Du. egghe, Du. eg; O.N. egg, see egg (v.); O.H.G. ecka, Ger. Eck "corner"), from PIE root *ak- "sharp, pointed" (cf. Skt. asrih "edge," L. acies, Gk. akis "point;" see acrid). Spelling development of O.E. -cg to M.E. -gg to Modern English -dge represents a widespread shift in pronunciation. To get the edge on (someone) is U.S. colloquial, first recorded 1911 ...To have (one's) teeth on edge is from late 14c., though "It is not quite clear what is the precise notion originally expressed in this phrase" [OED].

edge (v.)
late 13c., "to give an edge to" (implied in pp. egged), from edge (n.). Meaning "to move edgeways (with the edge toward the spectator), advance slowly" is from 1620s, originally nautical. Meaning "to defeat by a narrow margin" is from 1953. The meaning "urge on, incite" (16c.) often must be a mistake for egg (v.). Related: Edged; edging...
In the nautical sense, a cleavage's swell
is a wake which a boat has passed through or will.
So parting the water 's no mystery at all,
if you're stuck in a tub and are skilled with a rudder
it's as easy as cutting an egg like it's butter
or sucking rum-spirits like from mudder's own udder.
Popeye McGee
...egg (n.)
mid-14c., from northern England dialect, from O.N. egg, which vied with M.E. eye, eai (from O.E. æg) until finally displacing it after 1500; both are from P.Gmc. *ajja(m) (cf. O.S., M.Du., Du., O.H.G., Ger. ei, Goth. ada), probably from PIE *owyo-/*oyyo- "egg" (cf. O.C.S. aja, Rus. jajco, Bret. ui, Welsh wy, Gk. oon, L. ovum); possibly derived from root *awi- "bird." Caxton (15c.) writes of a merchant (probably a north-country man) in a public house on the Thames who asked for eggs:
And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude speke no frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no frenshe, but wolde have hadde egges, and she understode hym not.
She did, however, recognize another customer's request for "eyren."...

egg (v.)
c.1200, from O.N. eggja "to goad on, incite," from egg "edge" (see edge). The unrelated verb meaning "to pelt with (rotten) eggs" is from 1857, from egg (n.).

ileum
lowest part of the small intestine, 1680s, medical Latin, from ileum, singular created from classical Latin plural ilia "groin, flank," in classical Latin, "belly, the abdomen below the ribs," poetically, "entrails, guts." Sense restriction and form apparently from confusion with Gk. eileos (see ileus). Earlier in English ylioun (late 14c.), from M.L. ileon. Related: Ileitis.

ileus
painful intestinal condition, 1706, from L. ileus "severe colic," from Gk. ileos “colic,’ from eilein "to turn, squeeze," from PIE *wel- "to turn, roll" (see vulva).

vulva
1540s, from L. vulva, earlier volva "womb, female sexual organ," lit. "wrapper," from volvere "to turn, twist, roll, revolve," also "turn over in the mind," from PIE root *wel- "to turn, revolve," with derivatives referring to curved, enclosing objects (cf. Skt. valate "turns round," ulvam "womb, vulva;" Lith. valtis "twine, net," apvalus "round;" O.C.S. valiti "roll, welter," vluna "wave;" Gk. eluo "wind, wrap," helix "spiral object," eilein "to turn, squeeze;" Goth. walwjan "to roll;" O.E. wealwian "roll," weoloc "whelk, spiral-shelled mollusk;" O.H.G. walzan "to roll, waltz;" O.Ir. fulumain "rolling;" Welsh olwyn "wheel").

– from etymonline interweb home of the Muse (see 'spider').
SEX
Like a one-armed stick figure-named consonant Dick, 'K' is the male principle when entwined phonetically within two sybiline 'S's, enwrapped round a flowing or liquidy 'E'; and whether done standing or horizontally, it sometimes makes one plus one equal three. 'X' juxtaposes a 'K' and an 'S' to show the entanglement that's utmost necessity before any developing synergy takes place.

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