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ichor (n.)

"ethereal fluid that serves for blood in the veins of the gods," 1630s, from French ichor (16c.) or Modern Latin ichor, from Greek ikhōr, a word of unknown origin, possibly from a non-Indo-European language. Related: Ichorous.

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tea party (n.)

1772, from tea + party (n.). Political references to tea party all trace to the Boston tea party of 1773 (the name seems to date from 1824), in which radicals in Massachusetts colony boarded British ships carrying tea and threw the product into Boston Harbor in protest against the home government's taxation policies. It has been a model for libertarian political actions in the U.S. (generally symbolic), including citizen gatherings begun in early 2009 to protest government spending.

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exhale (v.)

c. 1400, exale, transitive, originally of liquids, perfumes, the breath of life, etc., from Old French exhaler (14c.) and directly from Latin exhalare "breathe out, evaporate," from ex "out" (see ex-) + halare "breathe." Of living things, "to breathe out," 1580s transitive; by 1837 intransitive. Related: Exhaled; exhaling.

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ACT 1 CATFISH DIALOGUE

"I envy your ability to swim so well, Catfish, Swimming involves the whole skin, every tiny part of it, and all at once.(1)“ said Jack.

"And I envy your ability to walk on land," replied Catfish. "But sometimes, I feel trapped in the water. It gets lonely down here."

Jack nodded sympathetically. "I know what you mean. Sometimes I feel the same way on land. I wish I could explore more, but I'm limited by my surroundings."

They both sighed, realizing that even though they had different abilities, they were both facing similar struggles.

And moreover we’re going to say that it is a nature that pervades them all; for each one of them is different from the rest not through its own nature, but rather through its sharing in this other form, difference. (2)

Following the Vistula River upstream, they can reach the Palace Field in a fifteen minute walk.(3)

My palace is ready for you, my waters Will do you honour.(4)

ACT 2 PALACE

The public are shocked by the state of society, but as for you, you're a breath of purity. (5)

Now his object in saying this was to set them at their ease and induce them to enter the garden.(6)

At either end is a square garden filled with flowers which bloom throughout the year, these gardens are adorned by two fountains, one of these streams waters the garden, the other passes through the palace and is then taken to a lofty tower in the town to provide drinking water for its citizens. (7)

Equally, if the water in the future fountain is limpid and bright, and neither moss nor rushes grow where it emerges, nor is the place tainted by any source of pollution but instead preserves a pure appearance, on the basis of these signs it is given the nod as being light and of the highest healthfulness. (8)

But nothing like that can be formed close to the stars and sun, because in that region there is fine aether. (9)

They seek not to obtain pleasure where it is not to be found: guided by sentiment alone, they are never deceived in their choice; their desires are always proportioned to their power of gratification; they feel as much as they enjoy, and seek not to vary or anticipate them.

Hence the choice of neat attire, and not neat attire in itself, is a good; since the good is not in the thing selected, but in the quality of the selection.(11)

Peppermint is a plant with a stem and leaves like those of the nettle, only smaller ; and which, when bruised, emit a powerful smell.(12)

As regards things that touch it, when a pungent thing such as musk or sulphur or some other powerful odour touches it it instantly permeates it; also if a luminous body be placed within it the whole of the surrounding air will be lit up.(13)

Now, and clearly, what I thought then and almost tried to conceal from myself, walking over the grounds, sometimes breaking into a run so that I might attribute to the motion of my body the sudden pounding of my heart, or stopping to admire the work of the villeins, deluding myself that I was being distracted by such contemplation, breathing the cold air deeply into my lungs, as a man drinks wine to forget fear or sorrow.(14)

It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point.(15)

ACT 3 METAMORPHOSIS

Jack nestles in the holes of walls, climbs up trees, choose the best peppermints (fruits) and devour them as they begin to ripen.(16)

O admirable purification of the soul!���a theurgy in which the violence of an impure envy has more influence than the entreaty of purity and holiness.(17)

Teach me rather what purity is, and how great a good we have in it, and whether it is situated in the body or in the soul.(18)

The fuller he crammed his insatiable maw, his hunger grew stronger, just as the ocean absorbs the streams that flow from a whole land, yet still unsatisfied drains the waters of far off rivers; or just as a raging fire will never refuse any fuel but burns an infinite number of logs (the more it is fed, the more it requires, abundance merely augmenting its greed), so a feast had only to touch Jack’s (Erysichthon’s) impious lips, and he asked for more.(19)

When he saw that nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure.(20)

He has been fashioned, moreover, as if through a kind of metamorphosis, so that when injustice had been abolished its place would be taken by innocence, and when the uncleanness of human appetites had been removed its place would be taken by the holiness of evangelical truth.(21)

Jack has mutated into a peppermint plant

ACT 4 REST

My memory is of a place of peace and harmony, where I could roam free, and breathe the air of my ancestors.(22)

And I, in like manner, was created on the land and the land is my abiding place; but, an I went down into the sea, the water would enter my belly and choke me and I should die.(23)

That they may be brought into harmony, air has been placed between fire and water, water between earth and air.(24)

Eventually the soul passes beyond the ether and reaches God, the source of the light emanating through the universe.(25)

And afterward Jack (Moses and Aaron) went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Krakow (Israel), Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.(26)

He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.(27)

Jack has mutated into a peppermint tea

ACT 5 CATFISH MONOLOGUE

What air is this I breathe?(28)

I become weightless and, instead of a simple centrifuge, the movements seem to me to come from both my friend’s strength and mine, from our special relationship: (s)he pulls me, throws me, catches me, intercepts me; I leave him (her), find him (her) again, fragile and dishevelled, hardly corporeal; I fly if (s)he wants me to, (s)he flies if I want him (her) to, we fly at will, effortless, eye to eye, toe to toe, weightless, our interconnection alone creates our ecstasy, we alone are responsible for our existence, the rest has disappeared.I become weightless and, instead of a simple centrifuge, the movements seem to me to come from both my friend’s strength and mine, from our special relationship: (s)he pulls me, throws me, catches me, intercepts me; I leave him (her), find him (her) again, fragile and dishevelled, hardly corporeal; I fly if (s)he wants me to, (s)he flies if I want him (her) to, we fly at will, effortless, eye to eye, toe to toe, weightless, our interconnection alone creates our ecstasy, we alone are responsible for our existence, the rest has disappeared.(29)

(1) Serres, The Five Senses

(2) Plato, Sophist

(3) Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

(4) Ovid, The Erotic Poems

(5) Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects

(6) The Book of the Thousand and One Nights

(7) Rousseau, Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(8) Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture

(9) Seneca, Natural Questions

(10) Buffon, Natural History Vol 5

(11) Seneca, Complete Works 

(12) Pliny, Natural History Volume 5

(13) da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

(14) Eco, The Name of the Rose

(15) Hugo, Les Miserables

(16) Buffon, Natural History Vol 6

(17) Augustine, The City of God

(18) Seneca, Complete Works

(19) Ovid, Metamorphoses

(20) Hugo, Les Miserables

(21) Erasmus, Paraphrases on the Epistles to the Corinthians Ephesians Philippans Colossians and Thessalonians

(22) Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

(23) The Book of the Thousand and One Nights

(24) Foucault, The Order of Things

(25) Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

(26) King, James Bible

(27) King, James Bible

(28) Seneca, Complete Works

(29) Serres, The five senses

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Dance - Henri Matisse

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La cueillette des pois - Camille Pissarro

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outburst (n.)

"a breaking or bursting out, a violent issue," 1650s, from the verbal phrase; see out (adv.) + burst (v.). Outbresten was a verb in Middle English (mid-12c.), from Old English utaberstan. Carlyle (1837) apparently coined inburst (n.) to be its opposite.

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The Last Day of Pompeii - Karl Brullov

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serenade (n.)

1640s, "a musical performance at night in open air" (especially "one given by a lover under the window of his lady" [OED]), from French sérénade (16c.), from Italian serenata "an evening song," literally "calm sky," from sereno "the open air," noun use of sereno "clear, calm," from Latin serenus "peaceful, calm, serene" (see serene (adj.)). The sense was influenced by Italian sera "evening" (from Latin sera, fem. of serus "late"). The meaning "piece of instrumental music suitable for a serenade" is attested from 1728.

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Takasugi-an by Terunobu Fujimori

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The infinite recognition - Rene Magritte

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transformation (n.)

c. 1400, from Old French transformation and directly from Church Latin transformationem (nominative transformatio) "change of shape," noun of action from past-participle stem of transformare "change in shape, metamorphose" 

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Journey to the West

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analgesia (n.)

"absence of pain, incapacity of feeling pain in a part, though tactile sense is preserved," 1706, medical Latin, from Greek analgesia "want of feeling, insensibility," from analgetos "without pain, insensible to pain" (also "unfeeling, ruthless"), from an- "not" (see an- (1)) + algein "to feel pain" (see -algia). An alternative form is analgia.

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Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486)

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