one-eyed trouser snake (thing) by Rancid_Pickle - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 one-eyed trouser snake (thing) See all of one-eyed trouser snake, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Rancid_Pickle Sun Nov 26 2017 at 23:40:33 "One-eyed trouser snake" is a euphemism for a penis. The one eye portion refers to the hole where the urine and semen come out. The trouser portion is because normally one has their penis behind a pair of trousers when out in public. The snake refers to the long shaft of the penis, a...

Killing Snakes in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Public DomainSnakes, like other non-human animals, can exist in multiple layers of human experience.By Dr. Huaiyu ChenAssociate Professor of Religious StudiesArizona State UniversityAbstractIn the medieval Chinese context, snakes and tigers were viewed as two dominant, threatening animals in swamps and mountains. The animal-human confrontation increased with the expansion of human communities to the wilderness. Medieval Chinese Buddhists developed new discourses, strategies, rituals, and narr...

In The Lair of the White Worm, Ken Russell Makes British Folk Horror So Very Silly

It would have been a futile endeavor to expect a "normal" horror film from Ken Russell. The flamboyant enfant terrible of 20th-century British cinema was never one to revel in kitchen-sink realism or basic genre expectations. After all, this is the guy who made The Devils and Tommy, wherein masturbation via femur and rolling around in baked beans are some of the more conventional parts of their respective narratives. By the late 1980s, Russell had suffered a few financial flops and dropped ou...

Dr Strangelove - Leo Szilard and the Doomsday Men

Clip source: Dr%20Strangelove%2C%20Leo%20Szilard%20%26%20the%20Doomsday%20Men%3A%20On%20the%2050th%20Anniversary%20%7C%20PD%20Smith%20%7C%20Kafka%u2019s%20mouse PD SmithDr Strangelove, Leo Szilard & the Doomsday Men: On the 50th Anniversary31 January 2014 | Atomic Age, atomic bomb, C-bomb, cold war, Doomsday Machine, Doomsday Men, Dr Strangelove, H-bomb, Kubrick, mad scientist, My Books, nuclear weapons, scientists, SF, Szilard, Teller, Watching the Detectives, WMD | One comment http://www.pe...

The Human Chameleon - Zelig, Nietzsche and the Banality of Evil

Clip source: The Human Chameleon: < The Human Chameleon: Zelig, Nietzsche and the Banality of EvilAbstractThis article revisits the case of Woody Allen’s mockumentary Zelig (1983) via Friedrich Nietzsche’s diagnostic of mimicry in The Gay Science. It argues that the case of the "human chameleon" remains contemporary for both philosophical and political reasons. On the philosophical side, I argue that the case of Zelig challenges an autonomous conception of the subject based on rational self...

Wombs, Worms, and Wolves: Constructing Cancer in Early Modern England

A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man’s left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. / Image courtesy Wellcome Images, Wikimedia Commons Understanding more fully how early modern people thought about cancer is significant for several reasons. By Dr. Alanna SkuseResearcherUniversity of Reading Abstract This essay examines medical and popular attitudes to cancer in the early modern period, c.1580–1720. Cancer, it is...

Constellation Serpens: the serpent

Serpens ("the Serpent", Ὄφις) is a constellation of the northern hemisphere. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. It is unique among the modern constellations in being split into two non-contiguous parts, Serpens Caput (Serpent's Head) to the west and Serpens Cauda (Serpent's Tail) to the east. Between these two halves lies the constellation of...

The Venom of Snakes: On Diane Williams

"No writer’s life is pain free," Diane Williams says early one morning while discussing her forthcoming book of stories, How High?—That High. "Marketing aside, just doing the work is so punishing. It’s an athletic ordeal on every level." Williams is speaking via Zoom from her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where she writes six days a week. She is bathed in light from a window with a view and framed by bookshelves and an art collection (twice profiled in the Paris Review). Painti...

TLS review of An encyclopedia of Cold War Culture from Pollock to Presley - and more clips from 4 Jun 2021 print edition

Deadly Shortage of Snake Venom antidote - The - Smithsonian Magazine NOV 2020 print edition

Deadly Shortage of Snake Venom antidote - The - Smithsonian Magazine NOV 2020 print edition

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Ichneumon (definition) by Webster 1913 - Everything2.com

Ichneumon (definition) See all of Ichneumon, no other writeups in this node. by Webster 1913 CC (unvotable) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 16:16:40 Ich*neu"mon (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. , lit., the tracker; so called because it hunts out the eggs of the crocodile, fr. to track or hunt after, fr. track, footstep.] 1. Zool. Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spai...