More human than human

Motoko Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell
Where Does The Ocean Go (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)
Human from
Old French humain, from 
Latin hūmānus, 
  the adjectival form of homō 
  ('man' — in the sense of humankind) from
Latin  hemō, from 
Proto-Italic *hemō from
 Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ  (“earthling”) from 
 Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”),
1 Corinthians 13
11.: When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

12: For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

One Reply to “More human than human”

  1. “Where Does The Ocean Go?”
    Yoko Kanno
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    all day the city’s selling something
    always, the busy people spinning ’round
    busier
    dizzier
    ’til they go back home to somewhere

    and taxies stop to say “hello”
    “want a ride? I’ll take you there”
    “to anywhere, just tell my driver”

    the sun is casting shadows
    an afternoon is fading
    I ask, but no one knows
    the answer to the question
    my life is like an island
    where does this ocean go?

    shyly, a wino sips his wine
    slowly, cause to him that is all that matters
    he sees a cat he knows so well
    now sleeping on a bench together

    a woman waiting by herself, selling flowers
    “please buy some, so I can help my daughter, will you?”

    the man with spider eyebrows
    is standing on a corner
    “who wants to see a show?”
    his head looks like a melon
    he turns into an alley
    then stops to blow his nose
    sky is filled with neon
    the buildings stand electric
    and almost seem to glow
    want answers to the question
    my life is like an island
    where does the ocean go?
    I really want to know
    my life is like an island
    it’s time for me now to fly
    where does the ocean go?

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