Other Parallels to Hoods and Brollies. What
can be said of hoods and brollies can also be said, it seems to me, of, say,
cans and bottles, the former more ringful than badgeful, not least in the ring-like opening mechanism, and
the latter, with their corks or caps requiring corkscrews, etc., more badgeful than ringful, a similar noumenal/phenomenal distinction applying between the free
and the bound, the absolute and the relative, which can imply size
differentials but must also take into account the mode of packaging and/or
presentation of the respective approaches to the containment of liquid.
Certainly, I would have no problem now, with our new and final template, in equating
cans with the sensual/anti-sensible options at the northwest and southwest
points of the intercardinal axial compass and bottles
with the sensible/anti-sensual options at the southeast and northeast points of
the said compass, since the parallel with hoods and brollies notwithstanding
there are also saluting parallels that leap to mind in respect of clenched-fist
vis-à-vis open-hand antitheses, the former ringful
and the product, I contend, of a female hegemonic precondition, the latter badgeful and the product, no less, of a male hegemonic
precondition which owes more to plenumous
subjectivity than ever it does to anything objectively vacuous. Therefore
no less than cans and bottles constitute a division between alpha/anti-omega
and omega/anti-alpha on both noumenal (free absolute)
and phenomenal (bound relative) terms, so do these alternative types of
saluting, whereby the clenched fist is symptomatic of a ringful
vacuum and the extended hand the product, by contrast, of a badgeful
plenum, the fruit, so to speak, of male hegemonic criteria in both physics over
antichemistry (phenomenal) and metaphysics over antimetachemistry (noumenal) at
the southeast and northeast points of the intercardinal
axial compass. Doubtless some parallel to tall or large vis-à-vis short
or small can/bottle and/or hood/brolly distinctions between the noumenal and phenomenal modes of saluting can be inferred,
and I wager that the noumenal will always be on a
raised arm and the phenomenal, being relative, on a bent arm, whether in terms
of a clenched fist or an extended hand, and irrespective of - though with due
consideration for - gender differentials between each of the four main intercardinal options. Hence the raised arm
extended-hand salute must absolutely contrast with the raised arm clenched-fist
salute ... as non-collapsible brollies with non-collapsible hoods, or large
bottles with large cans, the bent arm extended-hand salute (conventional
military) relatively contrasting with the bent arm clenched-fist salute ... as
collapsible brollies with collapsible hoods, or small bottles with small cans,
each of which will be subject to gender differentiation irrespective of element
or class.