Original Spin

Dear Colleagues,

The Violent Bear IT Away

(Explanation of the merely existential Origins
of Guilt & Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Attention
Deficiency, Early Onset Restless Legs Syn-
Drome, Binging & Purging, & Cutting, The
Constant Washing of Hands and The Ongoing
Neediness to Get R Done....)


Indo European: skai = to strike and cut:
generates “Caesar,” “chisel,” “scissors,”
“circumcise,” “ precise,” “decide”…

skei = to cut and split: generates Latin:
sciere: to know by separating one thing
from another. “science,” “conscience,”
“conscious.”—also “nice” from
ne-sciere: not knowing.

skeri = to cut, separate, sift: Latin
scribere: to scratch:” scribble,” scribe,”
“scripture,” also “discriminate” (sifting,
separating, deciding) and “certain,” “concern,”
“decree,” “discrete” as well as “excrete,”
“excrement” and “shit” (from Old English:
scitan, Germanic skitan, Old Norse skita.)

“Criticism” and “discernment”: to cut off
and separate the preferred from the deferred;
“secret” grows from the Latin crimen and
shares the same skeri notion of cutting,
separating, sifting. The Greek kremein
(to separate, decide judge) gives us “crisis,”
“critic,” “criterion,” “diacritical” and
“hypocritical.” From the same root, the
Russians derived krai: edge, brink .

Deciding, criticizing:
first cut and then choose,
discard and mostly ignore
the remains. Bloody business,
and violence to whole & holy.

Every discriminating action rejects
what won’t fit: all the left-outs and
-overs, castaways and rejects, exiled
and abandoned: psychic waste &
toxic if not recycled.

“ARTICULATE.” A butcher’s term:
to cut the beast cleanly at the joints
with minimum blood and gristle ;
"arthritus" shares the same root--as does,
of course: "ART" -- ertia & inertia at the
junctures, the crossroads.

THINKING is a violence to any Whole.

Guilty.
I feel it.
No wonder.
Obligated. In debt.
Ripping-offpieces of this and that.
My punish-mental studies & readership
programs. What a pain! What moving violations!

xxxooo, Presbyter