In case anyone is concerned, my cyst wound is healing nicely, because I have good "tissue granulation," but maybe this was just the doctor blowing smoke up my ass, because he also said that when this is all said and done, I might have a "stela" shaped mark on my back-- which sounds really nice, but apparently means a scar in the shape of a cross (and all I could find about "stelae"-- which is the plural of "stela"-- were definitions about funerary towers . . . thus the image).
Maybe he meant a stigmata. That would be cool!
ReplyDeleteOr maybe he meant an astigmatism. That would not be cool.
ReplyDeletetechnically the term for the grave markers is called stele, which stems from the use of them as grave markers in antiquity particularly found in egypt or greece, although they were usually not in a cross shape but more just pillars or rounded pillars, kind of like an obelisk. it is rare for stele (also can be known as stela, which i suppose is what mislead you) to be in a cross shape, although i guess the celtic crosses could be considered as them. At least this is from the perspective of the history of arts.
ReplyDeletei already have astigmatism, and i used to have stigmata, but then last easter i slept for a while in a cave, and when i woke up it was gone!
ReplyDeletethanks chinese-chuck