Combined with real cords, these doubling lines imply not just spatial depth but also, for those alert to Mr. Johns's age-old tactics, bodily shapes, perhaps testicles.
The significance, therefore, of certain bodily shapes, informs our sense of our own body and of the bodies of others.
The snake is the magico-mythical creature that gives both its bodily shape (either straight or undulant) and its metaphysical power to the kris.
Man lives in his bodily shape between heaven and earth and his life is like the span of the summer fly, like the passing of a white colt glimpsed through a crack in the wall.
"Surely the fear of the prewarmed seat," said Ruth Barcan, a professor of gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, "is less a rationally grounded fear of infection than a fear of the touch of the stranger, the Other who is so like us as to share our bodily shape and our bodily needs, but unknown to us, and therefore potentially contaminating".
Clearly, he was little inconvenienced by his spinal problem and accounts of his appearance, written when he was alive, tell that he was 'of person and bodily shape comely enough' and 'the most handsome man in the room after his brother, Edward IV'".
For him, the writing of history had an exalted and very Confucian mission: Man lives in his bodily shape between heaven and earth and his life is like the span of the summer fly, like the passing of a white colt glimpsed through a crack in the wall.
If gender becomes a matter of bodily style and performance, as this model suggests, then there is no necessary link between gender and any particular bodily shape.
Yet since pure beauty, as exemplified by Greek sculpture, is spiritual freedom immersed in spatial, bodily shape, it lacks the more concrete dynamism of action in time, action that is animated by imagination and language.
For women, breast cancer may be a more serious concern than other cancer because of changes in bodily shape caused by having a mastectomy, and the associated feelings of loss, depression, and anxiety.
Hebraism meets Hellenism in bodily form.
