That clears up any questions about your fallen state.
At 06:07 PM 7/28/2010, you wrote:
>Oh lord, I misread: The breasts, who never sinned, live in a prelapsarian
>state when we leave them alone.
>
>Otherwise, not all inheritance is earned.
>
>- Jim
>
>On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Millicent. Anybody know if this is functional, aside from helping
> > us identify the transgendered? Behind my
> curiosity about the necks of other
> > primates is a curiosity about whether the Adam's Apple is a survival of
> > earlier mutations with no particular function.
> >
> > If humans and only humans have them it's presumably because of original
> > sin. Men got Adam's Apples, women got
> difficult pregnancies. The beasts, who
> > never sinned, live in a prelapsarian state when we leave them alone.
> >
> >
> > At 04:34 PM 7/28/2010, you wrote:
> >
> >> From Wikipedia:
> >>
> >> The laryngeal prominence is usually more prominent in adult men than in
> >> women or children. The growth of the larynx itself during puberty is
> >> responsible for the vocal instability in teenage boys. The laryngeal
> >> prominence is merely the protrusion one sees
> of the thyroid cartilage making
> >> up the body of the larynx. The laryngeal prominence is usually more
> >> prominent in adult males because the thyroid cartilage elongates during
> >> puberty, protruding out the front of the
> neck more noticeably. The result is
> >> that the two laminae (thin cartilage) of the
> thyroid cartilage that form the
> >> protrusion meet at an average angle of 90°
> in males, and 120° in females,
> >> so there is less cartilage protruding out in females.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Millicent
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Sent: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 1:26 pm
> >> Subject: help, I can't find the answer!
> >>
> >>
> >> I was looking at a reconstruction of a Neandertal male. His neck was
> >> hidden by his beard, and I wondered: is there an Adam's Apple behind it? I
> >> don't know if there's a way to tell from the
> fossil record. But one thought
> >> led, as it tends to, to another, and I found myself wondering if other
> >> primate males have them.
> >>
> >> It seems to me perfectly reasonable to ask this of a poetry list. Faute de
> >> mieux.
> >>
> >> While I'm at it, anybody know why human males have them? Do they have a
> >> function? Women seem to get along perfectly well without.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> >> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
> >>
> >> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> >> particulars. Here is the poet alive in every
> sense of the word, and through
> >> every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
> >> fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesÂthe more that gets left out,
> >> the more they seem to contain… One can hear echoess from all the various
> >> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss.
> >> His use of the fragment is both elegant and
> bafflingly clear, a pure musical
> >> threnody…[it] opens a window, not only innto a mind, but a person, a
> >> personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
> >>
> >>
> >> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> >> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
> >
> >
> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through
> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
> > fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out, the
> > more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various
> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss.
> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and
> bafflingly clear, a pure musical
> > threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
> >
> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
> >
>
>
>
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New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
$16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
"What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a
lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the
poet alive in every sense of the word, and
through every one of his senses. Instead of
missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ fragments are
like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets
left out, the more they seem to contain… One can
hear echoes from all the various
ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its
core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment
is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
musical threnody…[it] opens a window, not only
into a mind, but a person, a personality, this
human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
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