I was running on two different tracks, today (Saturday), one quasi-philosophical and one that might be considered profane, in certain lights, so read the second entry at your own risk. The first is prompted by a sharing with a friend on another list.
1.
"Being is prior to every-thing and any-thing!"
While not an exactly related question, could you also say that fear of non-Being, on a personal level, is what has encouraged, even necessitated, man's seemingly, if ancient grave sites are any indication, pre-historic belief in an after-life and an invisible over-Being.
Is the coming into the awareness of non-being that final fork in the road that separated us from other animals? Was the awareness of non-being the real curse laid upon us as we left Eden?
Among other animals, elephants seem to have some type of concept of non-being, given that they make pilgrimages to visit their dead. Or am I anthropomorphizing their behavior?
… mankind still behaves as a heard animal. I'm trying to decide if this is a typo, a language idiosyncrasy of our common tongue, or a clever play on words and meaning.
Am I making any sense?
2.
March 8, 2008- Comic Urban Legends Revealed.
Small preface- I stumbled on a comic book site and came across a quote just too funny not to be noted and saved. It comes from an interview that Neil Gaiman, (The Sandman creator?) gave regarding the editing of the word, and thus the concept of masturbation, from an issue of the comic dealing with a serial killers' convention. While the DC editors seemed fine with the idea serial killers celebrating their hobby, masturbation gave them pause (and one should pause during masturbation, if only to extend the sensations over a longer period of time, but I digress). God forbid they should give their sexually ripening audience something other than comic books to fill their free time.
I, of course, have done my own editing of their post for the sake of punch-line timing. The full post may be read, here.
http://goodcomics.
RE: COMIC URBAN LEGEND:
There is no masturbation in the DC Universe. STATUS: At one point in time, Apparently True-
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Michael Berry… asked Gaiman about it in a piece Berry did in 1991 for the San Francisco Chronicle, and Gaiman let him know that, in the issue about the serial killer's convention:"the only word that got censored was `masturbate,
I grew up in the fifties and read comics just because I liked the characters and/or stories. That comics were rife with hidden sub-text ready to implode on my adolescent mind, never occurred to me.
The quote about the DC world and masturbation is hysterically funny, whatever the frame of reference.
Possibly comics did aid my young attempts at masturbation, considering the fantasies I had about Batman/Bruce & Robin/Dick's relationship when they weren't "on the page."
Maybe the DC editors were on to something.
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