Category Archives: Biology

I Like Aix

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Mandarin duck, Aix galericulata (Linnaeus 1758) (from the In-Terms-in-ator)

Peri-Performative Post-Scriptum

“I Like Aix” corely references “I Like Ike”, a slogan for Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower’s presidential campaign in the 1950s. Aix galericulata means “crested aix”, the word αἴξ, aix, being used by Aristotle for an unknown variety of water-bird. In Greek, it would have been pronounced something like “aye-ks”, which is what I’ve used in the title of this incendiary intervention. But “ay-ks” is probably better in modern English.

Free-Wheel Ferning

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Photo of unrolling fern frond, frondlets and frontletlets (from Free Photos)

Elsewhere Other-Engageable

• Farnsicht — beautiful black-and-white photograph of ferns by Karl Blossfeldt

Post-Performative Post-Scriptum

“Free-Wheel Ferning” is a pun on the title of core Judas-Priest track “Free-Wheel Burning”, off core Judas-Priest album Defenders of the Faith, issued in core Judas-Priest success-period of 1984.

Eggs for Eyes #2

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White bird-eggs of various species
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Elsewhere other-accessible…

• Eggs for Eyes — colored eggs of various species

Farnsicht

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Photo of developing ferns by the German nature photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1866-1932)
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum

“Farnsicht” is a pun on German Farn, meaning “fern”, and Fernsicht, meaning “view” or “visibility” (literally fern, “far”, + Sicht, “visibility”).

Vacancy Vanquished

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We never sighted the slightest suggestion of life all the way to Vancouver, twelve days of chilly boredom, though there was a certain impressiveness in the very dreariness and desolation. There was a hint of the curious horror that emptiness always evokes, whether it is a space of starless night or a bleak and barren waste of land. The one exception is the Sahara Desert where, for some reason that I cannot name, the suggestion is not in the least of vacancy and barrenness, but rather of some subtle and secret spring of life. — The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography (1929), ch. 57

Previously Pre-Posted…

• Leech Unleashed
• Crowley on Crystals