The book claims that homosexuality belongs to the normal spectrum of masculine sexuality. That the phallos cult can be considered a basic requirement for a healthy life so that we have to lament as culture deficite that male virtue cannot be received rectally anymore and that the Oldnordic and Islamic custom of humilation by enforced anal coitus got lost.
Homosexualität (gehöre) zur normalen Bandbreite männlichen Sexualverhaltens… Der Phallos-Kult gilt … als Grundbedingung gesunden Lebens … — so daß wir es als Kulturverlust beklagen müßten, daß Mannestugend nicht mehr rektal empfangen wird und die altnordische oder islamische Sitte der Demütigung durch erzwungenen Analkoitus abhanden kam.
Phallos — Symbol und Kult in Europa”, von Thorkil Vanggaard | KRITIK IN KÜRZE | ZEIT ONLINE
Definition: A strong, inborn preference or fondness for something.
Usage: “Inclination” implies a mild interest in something. “Proclivity” indicates a strong interest or fondness. “Fetish” implies an unusually strong, even unnatural proclivity toward an object.
Suggested Usage: The word “fetish” is both mis- and overused, so bring “proclivity” into play when speaking of strong but comprehensible preferences. “He has a proclivity for peanut butter and guacamole sandwiches” or “She has a proclivity to overstate the historical importance of her ancestors.”
Etymology: Latin proclivitas, from proclivus “inclined, sloping downward” from pro “forward” and clivus “slope.
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Definition: A large suitcase for carrying clothes in while traveling; a servant who carries one’s clothes while traveling.
Usage: The portmanteau is the metaphor for a means of packing more than one object into what seems to be a single object. Portmanteau word is what linguists call a “blend,” i.e. two words that are simply smushed together, as “smog” is blended from “smoke” and “fog” and “motel,” from “motor” plus “hotel.” Linguists do refer to portmanteau morphs, such as the French portmanteau prepositions “du,” the equivalent of de+le, and “au,” a blend of a + le.
Suggested Usage: The basic meaning of today’s word is “suitcase” but it is usually used in a poetic or humorous context: “The battered old portmanteau by the side of Miss Terplane bore the stamps of dozens of far-flung places she had, no doubt, left her mark on, too.” The metaphorical usage of this word suggests several objects functioning somehow as one: “We are a portmanteau office; we function as one.” Did you ever pray for a portmanteau government?
Etymology: From the Middle French compound noun portemanteau “suitcase; coatrack” (literally, “mantle bearer”) from porter “to carry” + manteau “mantle” from Latin mantel(l)um. “Mantellum” is of obscure origins, possible an old compound from man- “hand” + terg “wipe” + sli (suffix), since the original meaning seems to have been “napkin.” The root por- in Latin “porter” is also the source of the “fare” of “farewell,” “warfare,” “wayfarer” in English. “Fare” originally meant “to journey” and is akin to German fahren “travel by conveyance.”
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Sitting Bull became a Sioux holy man, or wičháša wakȟáŋ, during his early twenties. His responsibilities as a holy man included understanding the complex religious rituals and beliefs of the Sioux, and also learning about natural phenomena that were related to the Sioux beliefs. Sitting Bull had an “intense spirituality that pervaded his entire being in his adult years and that fueled a constant quest for an understanding of the universe and of the ways in which he personally could bring its infinite powers to the benefit of his people.”[9] Sitting Bull also knew techniques of healing and carried medicinal herbs, though he was not a medicine man.
Because of his status as a wichasha wakan, Sitting Bull was a member of the Buffalo Society, a dream society for those who dreamt of buffalo. He also was a member of the Heyoka, a society for those who dreamed of thunderbirds.[10]
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Definition: Concealed, hidden; clandestine or secretive.
Usage: The adverb is “covertly” and the noun, “covertness,” although the adjective itself may be used as a noun in referring to (1) a sheltered place for animals, (2) the feathers covering the base of quills on a bird, or (3) a multicolored twill cloth often waterproofed. The antonym is a rhyme partner, “overt.” In law, it means “married,” as in Anglo-Norman feme covert “married woman,” under the assumption that a married woman is protected by her husband.
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Definition: An orphan calf or other animal that leaves the pack or herd. An outsider, an iconoclast or self-oriented person who lives by his or her own rules, often perceived as a danger or threat.
Usage: “Maverick” is itself a maverick word, a lonesome lexical orphan. Though no adjective, adverb or verb may be derived from it, it may be used itself as an adjective, “Trimble is a maverick CEO who takes his company where others fear to tread.”
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