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THE ANATOMY OF DISGUST


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Weeds (!)

Weeds (!)
Sweeping,
After long neglect,
Hedge-flowers blooming.

~ Taneda Santōka



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 Dinesh
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Further up the hierarchy of plant forms, ferns and seed bearing weeds are still suspect, capable of generating images and suggestions of disgust. They indicate rankness, excessiveness, a certain kind of disorderly productivity and reproductivity that passed beyond lushness into the rankness of surfeit. If we do not think of weeds as disgusting they seem to have been so in the Jacobean world: thus melancholy, disgust with life, and thoughts of his mother’s unconstrained sexuality draw Hamlet to image of weeds:

“How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on’t, ah fie, ‘tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature~
Possesses it merely (1.2.133-137) ~ Page 41


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