Early mid-afternoon. You are at Potbelly’s at the Polaris Mall north of Columbus. You had lunch and Mary Lou who stopped by for lunch also is still in talking with Carol. You are out in the car with Jadah and have warmed the interior for her while you wait.
Last night you wrote a bit but did not post so let’s drop it down here as well as the whole of scene five. – Amorella
Scene 5, Chapter 8, Book 4
Merlyn took two stealthy steps forward and with his left hand and astutely touched the back of Arthur’s right shoulder.
Surprised, Arthur turned, “Merlyn. How do you do this? Catching me unaware.”
Merlyn pointed, “Let’s sit on the stone and talk my young man.”
Quickly settled and glancing towards the foliage and the water trickling down into the far end of the wee pond, the two sat appearing as two unidentifiable old men on a bench in a far from natural setting.
“You manifest a troubled mind, Arthur. Care to talk about it?”
“I cannot bring myself to see Guinevere.”
Merlyn grinned with understanding. “Women are as troubling in a man’s death as well as they were in his life.”
Prefacing with a laugh Arthur shot forth, “I see it is the same with you too, Merlyn.”
“Only a moment ago, my king. A moment ago I brushed my lips at Vivien’s stilled veins and brought us both to the thoughts of life.”
“You startled her as well?”
“I was the air and enveloped her whole in the enchantment.”
He mischievously joked, “Did you used your mouth to swallow her from foot to head?”
Were I a shaman, thought Arthur, what wonders could I do to touch good Guinevere’s heart.
“My wind laden lips barely affected the small hairs on her smoothly feminine neck, replied Merlyn. I wished to raise them straight out, but she possesses her own heartansoulanmind, not I.”
“It must be strange for one such as you who can control the ends of heaven and earth but cannot master a this single woman’s desires.”
Smiling devilishly Merlyn replied, “With this affliction no man is alone, young Arthur.” He paused, setting a darkening tone, “I control nothing but my own self. This World of the Dead is as disconcerting as is the World of the Living. I live one foot in each every moment.”
“How is this, Merlyn? To be two places at once?”
“I am more than many places in the moment. It lends to no speculation and imagination cannot be born in such an exercise.”
Merlyn quietly laughed at the innocence of the suggestion, pointed to his dark eyes and said, “I can enclose a page and metaphor, alone, with these two immortal novel sockets on either side of a nose that no more exists than you do, my liege; yet here we are in a conversation that begins with women, the echoes of who put us here in the first place.”
“Where have you been, Merlyn? What do you do to stir a rebellion only rumored of in this place of Avalon?”
“I walk the ChessBoard metaphor gleaning information. Think of the ChessBoard as a human body at rest,” stated Merlyn. “Each unbunched hair on the body as a chess square.”
Arthur grinned, “You walk from head to toe then, and back again. Where is Avalon in this heavenly geographic body of your inclination?”
Merlyn pointed and with a half smirk declared, “Your navel will do, your Highness.”
“My navel no longer exists; and we are both as high puffs of heavenly air, Merlyn.”
“As you wish, Arthur, my sovereign,” chortled Merlyn. “Let’s use your fair Guenevere as our celestial template to keep this lesson interesting.”
“To be fair, my friend and sorcerer, I shall think of this uncommonly heavenly mapping of yours as your own enchanted mistress, Vivien, so that I may do my own foreign walking in naked feet.” Both laughed.
“As you wish, my King. Avalon is our Lady’s navel.”
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You are wondering what you have got yourself into by bringing the meta-geographical woman’s body into play. – Amorella
As the words were running onto the screen I thought it was pretty funny. I could see two guys standing around and coming up with a nude as a geographical body (at least under their present circumstances); however, I this was spontaneous in nature and I can only imagine what they are going to do with it.
For this reason alone, why don’t we end the scene with it as another reader might have your same thought. – Amorella
Amorella, I worked on the abstract for a meta-geography. A woman’s nude body was not anywhere in mind at the time.
I like to see you flustered, orndorff because I understand your concern as I understand your personal and imaginary circumstance. At the least we can see Merlyn and Arthur’s fantasies are feminine in nature. They wouldn’t have to be you know. – Amorella
So, what am I going to do, go to 3-D medical model of a female human form (if there is such available)?
Sounds good to me, boy. I think this as rather a fun assignment, don’t you?
I see a twist of dark humor rolling in here. The bodily structure has to have a correct anatomy, at least from a medieval perspective.
Gross anatomy will do. - Amorella
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Anatomy is the study of the biological structure of living things. The term comes from the Greek words meaning to cut up, because knowledge of anatomy was first obtained through dissection. The bodies of human beings and animals are so complex that scientists divide anatomy into many branches. Gross anatomy is the study of structures that can be seen with the unaided eye.. . . Human anatomy includes the study of the structure of the skeleton, muscles, nerves, and the various organs of the human body.. . . After 400 B.C. the Greeks allowed occasional dissections. The physician Galen, in the A.D. 100's, described many anatomical structures. But he based his work mainly on dissections of animals and treatment of injured gladiators.. . .
Contributor: Delmas J. Allen, Ph.D., former President for Academic Affairs, North Georgia College. – World Book software 2009
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Galen . . . became one of the most famous and influential physicians in the history of medicine. He discovered that the arteries contain blood, not an airlike substance called pneuma as had been believed. Galen performed dissections on monkeys, pigs, and other animals, and established comparative anatomy as a field of anatomy.
Galen developed the first medical theories that were based on scientific experiment. His landmark Anatomical Procedures served as the standard anatomy textbook in Western and Middle Eastern civilization until modern times. Galen's ideas about physiology were considered authoritative in Europe until the 1500's. His methods for the treatment of disease continued to influence physicians well into the 1800's.
Galen was born in Pergamum (now Bergama, Turkey), a city of the Roman Empire. He began to study medicine at the age of 14. About A.D. 157, Galen became a physician for trained fighters called gladiators. This experience gave him valuable information about surgery and diet. In 161 or 162, Galen went to Rome. There, he presented lectures on anatomy and physiology and soon was hired to be the physician of the household of the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius. This position enabled him to write, research, and travel. By 200, he had written many works on medicine and physiology.
As time passed, some of Galen's main theories were proved false. For example, Galen thought that the liver changed digested food into blood, which then flowed to the rest of the body and was absorbed. In 1628, however, the English physician William Harvey showed that blood circulates throughout the body and returns to the heart.
Contributor: John Scarborough, Ph.D., Professor, History of Pharmacy and Medicine and Classics, University of Wisconsin. – World Book software 2009
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Once I have wireless I can check. Galen’s Anatomical Procedures and other works ought to be available from The Gutenberg Project. I really need to put my DVD software of Encyclopedia Britannica on my machine for non-wireless backup. I feel much better about this than going through a modern 3-D anatomically correct female model for a meta-geography. I searched online and found a couple but where to stop in a dimensional sense of Merlyn’s heaven-like geography?
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Physiologists study how different parts or organs of an organism work together to achieve a particular function. In people, for example, the digestion of food involves the action of hormones and other chemicals produced by the stomach, liver, and pancreas. Muscle contraction occurs through the action of chemical messengers produced by nerves that supply the muscle.
Contributor: P. Landis Keyes, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, University of Michigan. – World Book software 2009
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I assume I can use Aristotle’s concepts for the physiology.
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Aristotle: Selected Concepts: (Logic Notes)
Five Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Fifth Essence (eternal/no decay)
Philosopher’s Stone: transmutation (time machine-like) of lead that would eventually evolve into gold as would all elements. Gold is as Fifth Essence.
Personality types: Sanguine, Phlegmatic; Choleric; Melancholy (see Chaucer)
Physical Humors: blood; phlegm; choler; and black bile (health descriptions)
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Stop here for the night and post. - Amorella
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