So many questions go unanswered these days, Im not sure that I can go much longer with out an answer to mine. At least, that was the case until last night.
Before last night, I was intent on finding out the relevance of the spleen when reading the future in the entrails of birds. Was it an inflamed spleen that told Julius Caesars haruspicator that his boss should "Beware the Ides of March?"
Before last night, I knew Baudelaire employed the word spleen to describe an absolute and paralyzing ennui, a melancholy he believed to be endemic of the turn of the century. This made me suspect that a prominent spleen might be a negative thing to a soothsayer looking for answers in the guts of crow. It turns out that the spleen can convey a lot of information about the bird and its health and there is no shortage of people willing to discuss it. A cursory investigation on Google with the words bird spleen yielded over twenty thousand references, but I suspected that not one of them might enlighten me on what the spleenwhether enlarged, atrophied, or tumor riddenmight portend.
As a matter of fact, Marek's Disease (a disease caused by a chicken herpes virus) manifests itself chiefly in the entrails of poultry, causing tumors in the spleen, liver, and kidneys. Other symptoms include neurological disorders, such as partial paralysis in the bird's legs or wings, and not excluding an effect on the eye that I find particularly disturbing. A chickens eye affected with Mareks would be rife with lesions and an irregular pupil reminiscent of an acid eater.
Paralysis Chicken herpes It all makes me wish I didn't want to know in the first place. However, it does illustrate what the character Miller from the movie Repo Man referred to as the "cosmic unconsciousness." Although Syphilis was the more fashionable STD for Baudelaire's time period, herpeswhich sticks with you like a set of luggageis a social disease. That he also felt paralyzed by the oppression of the Spleen also goes a long way to making the connection to this disease that manifests itself in the bird's entrails and it's ability to cripple the bird's flight (restricted flight would be equal to restricting the Ideal--the oppisite of Baudelaire's conception of Spleen--which is concerned with the aspiration to perfection). I mean, under what other conditions is a haruspicator going to be able to catch a bird and rip it open except when its flight is restricted.
In the final analysis, I believe I can safely say the spleen was important to the soothsayer. "It's like, you're thinkin' of a plate of shrimp and, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, some one says 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp,'" as related by Miller. But what happened last night, you ask? Why did this only bother me until last night? Because last night I saw X2 and realized that all my musings were trivial when you consider the persecution of the mutants. Read Les Fleurs du Mal or Le Spleen de Paris.
(I'm normally very opposed to emoticons, but this one seems so appropriate.)
Before last night, I was intent on finding out the relevance of the spleen when reading the future in the entrails of birds. Was it an inflamed spleen that told Julius Caesars haruspicator that his boss should "Beware the Ides of March?"
Before last night, I knew Baudelaire employed the word spleen to describe an absolute and paralyzing ennui, a melancholy he believed to be endemic of the turn of the century. This made me suspect that a prominent spleen might be a negative thing to a soothsayer looking for answers in the guts of crow. It turns out that the spleen can convey a lot of information about the bird and its health and there is no shortage of people willing to discuss it. A cursory investigation on Google with the words bird spleen yielded over twenty thousand references, but I suspected that not one of them might enlighten me on what the spleenwhether enlarged, atrophied, or tumor riddenmight portend.
As a matter of fact, Marek's Disease (a disease caused by a chicken herpes virus) manifests itself chiefly in the entrails of poultry, causing tumors in the spleen, liver, and kidneys. Other symptoms include neurological disorders, such as partial paralysis in the bird's legs or wings, and not excluding an effect on the eye that I find particularly disturbing. A chickens eye affected with Mareks would be rife with lesions and an irregular pupil reminiscent of an acid eater.
Paralysis Chicken herpes It all makes me wish I didn't want to know in the first place. However, it does illustrate what the character Miller from the movie Repo Man referred to as the "cosmic unconsciousness." Although Syphilis was the more fashionable STD for Baudelaire's time period, herpeswhich sticks with you like a set of luggageis a social disease. That he also felt paralyzed by the oppression of the Spleen also goes a long way to making the connection to this disease that manifests itself in the bird's entrails and it's ability to cripple the bird's flight (restricted flight would be equal to restricting the Ideal--the oppisite of Baudelaire's conception of Spleen--which is concerned with the aspiration to perfection). I mean, under what other conditions is a haruspicator going to be able to catch a bird and rip it open except when its flight is restricted.
In the final analysis, I believe I can safely say the spleen was important to the soothsayer. "It's like, you're thinkin' of a plate of shrimp and, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, some one says 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp,'" as related by Miller. But what happened last night, you ask? Why did this only bother me until last night? Because last night I saw X2 and realized that all my musings were trivial when you consider the persecution of the mutants. Read Les Fleurs du Mal or Le Spleen de Paris.
(I'm normally very opposed to emoticons, but this one seems so appropriate.)VIEW 3 of 3 COMMENTS
Kind of resembles a peeled but unwashed potato. Quite disturbing.
and twenty-three times more desirable? even your choiceness of numerology gashes at my viscera.
in conclusion, i have an overbite.