[Dig]ithyphallic: said of the erect cockfinger; the penis sublimated as [ap]pointer, primed for indexical penetration. The [dig]ithyphallic trace is the cursor on desktops screens, the ostensive arrowhead that phone IU has done away with.
An alternate etymology for obscenity: not “ob” + “caenum” (before filth, muck-facing), but “ob” + “scena, scaena,” that is, before the stage or, in our case, where stages are “flat vertical surfaces for the reception of projected images,” screen-facing. Obscenity = proscenium.
For obvious reasons, I don’t touch the L word/play the L game, but this was a wonderful analysis, as always.
I'm not sure why I touch it tbh lol, to tamper and leave the strings a bit different? Internet strings? Exist? It seems like there are things we say because they sound a certain way (Lindy Lindy Lindy Lindy Lindy not Lindy not Lindy not Lindy not Lindy) and this is one of them. Like, as well, Skallas' Substack is SUPER boring.
And yeah, one could do more with fingers, keyboards, arachnoidian fevers? Or something.
[Dig]ithyphallic: said of the erect cockfinger; the penis sublimated as [ap]pointer, primed for indexical penetration. The [dig]ithyphallic trace is the cursor on desktops screens, the ostensive arrowhead that phone IU has done away with.
An alternate etymology for obscenity: not “ob” + “caenum” (before filth, muck-facing), but “ob” + “scena, scaena,” that is, before the stage or, in our case, where stages are “flat vertical surfaces for the reception of projected images,” screen-facing. Obscenity = proscenium.
For obvious reasons, I don’t touch the L word/play the L game, but this was a wonderful analysis, as always.
I'm not sure why I touch it tbh lol, to tamper and leave the strings a bit different? Internet strings? Exist? It seems like there are things we say because they sound a certain way (Lindy Lindy Lindy Lindy Lindy not Lindy not Lindy not Lindy not Lindy) and this is one of them. Like, as well, Skallas' Substack is SUPER boring.
And yeah, one could do more with fingers, keyboards, arachnoidian fevers? Or something.
Like the whole internet is Pinocchiod'd.
I want to be a Real boy!
I red about this today