司 SHI, tsukasa(doru), ADMINISTER, OFFICIALThus: the Chinese character for bureaucrat is the picture of an asshole. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, as *my* ancestral wisdom has it.
Once written (picture of early form) being a mirror image of anus 后 ie an opening 口 under buttocks 尸. It is not known how this character came to mean administer, official. Some scholars feel it results from borrowing or confusion with chronicler 史, but in view of the fact that buttocks in building 官 came to mean sedentary work and hence government/ official, it is not impossible that anus/ posterior similarly came to symbolise sedentary work and hence official.
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Creaking joints
Another early shift, another trashed knee. Don't ask me why: I was careful to sit when I could and to stretch ligaments. But no- put on boots, walked…
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Turn of the year
The Dead Days this year are cold rather than warm- reasonable cold, not arctic vortex- so the grey is sharp and hard-edged and sprinkled with white…
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I has a sad
Grey dank December day, but streets empty enough to bicycle if one exercises care and doesn't mind pissing off motorists, who only put up with…
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Creaking joints
Another early shift, another trashed knee. Don't ask me why: I was careful to sit when I could and to stretch ligaments. But no- put on boots, walked…
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Turn of the year
The Dead Days this year are cold rather than warm- reasonable cold, not arctic vortex- so the grey is sharp and hard-edged and sprinkled with white…
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I has a sad
Grey dank December day, but streets empty enough to bicycle if one exercises care and doesn't mind pissing off motorists, who only put up with…
