The Organist is somewhat painful
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“The difference between discomfort and pain is both rhetorical and subjective. I can say that, for me, listening to The Organist is somewhat painful. I have a large head. My headphones strain to encompass its width and, thus, the earpads press the temples of my glasses into their respective temporal bones. Despite this, my birth was a gentle one. I was delivered swiftly, at some point between lunch and dinner, at least, according to my mother when she regales her friends with accounts of how reasonable of a son I am. My cranial girth developed in adolescence, a time when, for a lot of boys, things increase in size. Where other men may flaunt the ostensible size of their members, I remain utterly neutral about my large head. The growth of a body has many causes. Would I brag about a cyst? And while one may think that I would enjoy correlating the size of a head to the size of a mind, I don’t think it marks me as a person of intelligence. I am, instead, continuously humbled by various notions. For example, the word “organ” comes from the Greek organon, meaning tool, or instrument. Many of us don’t think of the brain as an organ, at least not in the way a liver or kidney is, because sentience, or consciousness, has been abstracted to such a degree by the very people invested in it. By contrast, the pipe organ, after which this podcast is named, derives from orgia—from the Greek again—which meant “religious performance.” This lends itself to the association that developed between the bodily organ, and the pipes through which more ecclesiastical winds coursed. I say this not to be pedantic, but as an example of both the contents and limits of my capacious head.”
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