Gronk. I've showered, and eaten, and am just about ready to get on the road.
Morning people are weird.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Lee - Apr 13, 2005 4:47:52 am PDT #2987 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
billytea - Apr 13, 2005 4:49:54 am PDT #2988 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think Greece around the time of Plato and those guys had the idea that the woman was just a vessel for the man's generative seed. I don't know when/how that changed, though.
It was still the belief at the time of Aquinas, I believe. You might try googling on the term 'preformation'. Apparently there's a book by one Clara Pinto-Correia, called The Ovary of Eve, which discusses the battle between theories that humans began fully formed within the sperm, and that they did so within the ovary.
Ginger - Apr 13, 2005 5:01:59 am PDT #2989 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There was a belief for some time that the sperm contained a homunculus--a tiny person that grew in the womb. This led to the belief that each homunculus contained a homunculus and so on ad infinitum like Russan dolls. Here's one thing I found: [link] There seemed to be a fair amount of information from googling "homunculus" and "sperm."
-t - Apr 13, 2005 5:15:08 am PDT #2990 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Google's giving me no love. Unfortunately, I can't even remember in what context I learned what little I know. It might have been a book I got for my sister on the history of motherhood. I'd go to a nice library and browse the history of science section, and make friends with some librarians, Cindy.
juliana - Apr 13, 2005 5:16:21 am PDT #2991 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Timelies.
I have nothing to contribute on the homunculi discussion, but it's interesting.
re: The Vader M&M picture. [link] What is most disturbing is that it looks like the M&M is chained at the wrists.
§ ita § - Apr 13, 2005 5:19:01 am PDT #2992 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Didn't Ayla work out that whole sperm/egg thing?
Calli - Apr 13, 2005 5:25:00 am PDT #2993 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Just after she discovered smelting and before she went on to invent the internet.
lisah - Apr 13, 2005 5:25:57 am PDT #2994 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
There are a couple of supposedly easy tasks (placing an ad for the loom, and another in the local paper for my yard sale)
Anne, you might want to put ads in the Mobtown Shank. It reaches a bunch of people in the area and a whole mess of them are knitters now. You can email the ad info to mobtownshank @ atomicbooks . com. And it's free.
Let me know when your yard sale is going to be! I know you're super busy now but I'd love to see you before you go.
Anne W. - Apr 13, 2005 5:27:54 am PDT #2995 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Ooh! Thanks for the tip, lisah. The yard sale will be a week from this coming Saturday, most likely.
lisah - Apr 13, 2005 5:28:28 am PDT #2996 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I'll put it in my calendar!