Douglas Mercer
June 15 2024
Eating is the most basic and elemental process of nature; nature has eat in it as does elemental. Nature has a dog-eat-dog mentality, the big ones eat the little ones, and there are many mouths to feed. Ritual cannibalism is present in many creation myths wherein the gods eat god, and one assimilates the other to himself. The head is the stomach of the heart in that it mentally assimilates what the heart takes in, and mental has eat in it as well. This gives one much food for thought.
Eat/ate (figure 8 infinite process)
All these elemental words of nature have eat in them:
Wheat
Meat
Creation
Weather
Earth
Vegetable
Breath
Heat
Health
Hearth
Death
Fundament
The only one that does not is birth, it is sui generis, the exception to the rule, the unique one, or the life-sized unicorn, meaning that the final birth escapes the natural and never-ending process of creation and of eating and being eaten. Also, earth as sound is swallowed up by the word birth. At birth no more assimilation or process is required, as it will happen at one site in one never ending moment of instant and simultaneous creation, where the vacancy is filled by the vibration, where one is borne aloft with no ground at all.
