Secret fartposted by saturday_morning at 12:44 PM on December 20, 2012 [10 favorites]
What are you made of
What are you so afraid of
Could it be three simple words
Or the fear of being overheard
What's wrong
Let him in on your secret fart
This very secret that you're trying to conceal
Is the very same one that you're dying to reveal
Go tell him how you feel
Secret fart, come out and share it
This loneliness, few can bear it
Could it have something to do with
Admitting that you just can't go through it alone
Let him in on your secret fart
There are several interesting occurrences in Anishinaabemowin literature where gender shows shifting, and these can throw light on the system behind animacy. Here are two examples where gender shifting takes place.posted by and so but then, we at 6:34 PM on December 20, 2012 [1 favorite]
In one case, the item undergoing gender shift is the culture hero Wenabozho's backside. In a popular tale, Wenabozho has killed some ducks and geese by trickery, and after burying them in the sand to cook and extolling his backside to keep watch, he falls asleep. In the story, when Dakotas approach, Wenabozho's backside shouts out to him, and in all cases where the backside speaks, it is clearly animate in gender, even though the word for backside, "ninjiid" 'my rectum,' is normally inanimate. So speaking seems to be a canonical animate act.
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