| Xiu Xiu – Homonculus Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| As-if I could spell: idiosyncracies should be idiosyncrasies. | |
| Xiu Xiu – Homonculus Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is riddled with idiosyncracies, the only thing I can do is give the denotation of the word "homunculus." Homunculus was a theoretical being that was inside of sperm, in the past they believed that sperm contained a very small fully developed human and it just grew over time. The term originated from the alchemist Paracelsus who claimed that he had a little man who did work for him (which he created by putting together a bag of bones, sperm, skin fragments and hair from any animal you wanted it to be a hybrid of. This was to be laid in the ground surrounded by horse manure for forty days, at which point the embryo would form.) Today the term is used in a number of ways to describe systems that are thought of as being run by a "little man" inside. For instance, the homunculus continues to be considered as one of the major theories on the origin of consciousness, that there is a part (or process) in the brain whose purpose is to be "you". The homunculus is often invoked in cybernetics as well, for similar reasons. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Trampled Under Foot Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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While the dualism about cars and women may seem novel, it's not. Take for instance the E. E. Cummings poem "She Being Brand New" written in 1926: http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~empueschel/otherpeople/brandnew.html ..oh, but you're all so intellectual. :-D |
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