Resting on red velvet pillows, the balls spell out elemental word pairs: "semen-blood," "earth-air," "night-day" and so on.
When sexism is entangled with language at such an elemental level, reforging words takes a great deal of time and education.
We have hundreds of words for elemental phenomena, from grimlins (Orcadian for the "night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn") to moor-gallop (Cumbrian for "wind and rain moving fast over high ground"), and hundreds more for aspects of creaturely life, from airymouse (Cornish for a bat) to zebn-slaper (Somerset dialect for a dormouse, literally a "seven-sleeper").
His letter suffused me with renewed energy and determination; and especially, a belief in the importance, beauty and elemental, intoxicating, limitless power of words.
And certainly a strong affinity for the body and its functions ties together some of the work here — elemental would be a better word than iconic.
Soon after this recording was made, McIntyre adopted the self-fashioned name Kalaparusha Ahrah Difda, drawing not only from African, Indian, and astrological sources but also from his creation of a word ("Ahrah") representing elemental sonic energy.
This concert, given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the Swedish conductor B Tommy Andersson, as part of Radio 3's current season of Nordic music and words, had a decidedly elemental quality, if little obviously ecstatic light.
Some words seem obvious and elemental: fire, hand, give, mother, man.
Images hit humans at a deeper, more fundamental level than words and provoke stronger more elemental responses.
In other words, whether subjects can recall elemental information at a later date has no bearing on whether the informed consent was valid.
