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Testimony
Submitted by Adam Zaretsky on Wednesday, 07/27/2016 8:03amI remember that the word testament and testicles have etymological origins in common. Early swearing on the Torah was not always possible before the printing press. Often it was told that men would take an oath on each other’s thighs or even under each other’s thighs. Due to the fact that the oath was a testimony, shy scholars had substituted balls or testicles with the words: ‘thigh’, stones or underthighs. The image is of men holding each other’s cojones cupped in each other’s hands during an oath, this is testimony.
a few notes on foam
Submitted by Adam Zaretsky on Tuesday, 07/26/2016 3:27pmLeonardo community: HELP DEFINING ReQUEST _ SHLAVACADOO
Submitted by Adam Zaretsky on Tuesday, 07/26/2016 2:57pmShevakadoo: body remainders, any part of a human separated from the main body, esp. referring to the taboo surrounding leftover flesh parts.
CrispR ‘r’ Us
Submitted by Adam Zaretsky on Monday, 07/25/2016 1:35pmthe genitals fell into the much-surging sea
Submitted by Adam Zaretsky on Thursday, 07/21/2016 3:42pm“you can check lines 188-190 of Hesiod's Theogyny ‘they fell from the mainland into the much-surging sea, so that the sea carried them for a long time.’ Therefore, no reference to the place where the genitals fell, but if you keep reading “lines 190-200 from the foam around them in the sea Aphrodite was created near the island of Kythira (south of the Pelloponese) and from there she follows to Cyprus (next to Turkey).
Ἑκατόγχειρες, the Hundred-handers
Submitted by Adam Zaretsky on Thursday, 07/21/2016 2:47pmNot the clear-sighted
Submitted by Matteo Farinella on Monday, 07/18/2016 11:18amI found this fog quote attributed to Joseph Conrad and I made a little sketch for it: “It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.”
The Fog
Submitted by Matteo Farinella on Sunday, 07/17/2016 1:00pmSince I arrived at the Djerassi residency I have been particularly fascinated by the fog that rolls up the mountains at night (I guess you can tell it’s my first time on the West coast) so I have been drawing and thinking a lot about fog lately.