hircine middens
The polyhistor noted that the hymeneal midden was surprisingly hircine today; the aroma made his gnosis turn into a more ludic train of thought.
- polyhistor: A person with broad knowledge.
- hymeneal: adj. Of or relating to a wedding or marriage. n. 1. A wedding song or poem. 2.hymeneals Archaic A wedding; nuptials.
- midden: 1. A dunghill or refuse heap. 2. Archaeology A mound or deposit containing shells, animal bones, and other refuse that indicates the site of a human settlement. Also called kitchen midden.
- hircine: Of or characteristic of a goat, especially in strong odor. (unrelated similar word: hirsute)
- gnosis: Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, an esoteric form of knowledge sought by the Gnostics.
- ludic: Of or relating to play or playfulness: “Fiction . . . now makes [language] the center of its reflexive concern, and explodes in ludic, parodic, ironic forms” (Ihab Hassan).
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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