Luis, you're such a wag! It could be methane - I've been enjoying a very rich diet lately, at least intellectually. But I'm inclined to think any lingering noxious fumes might be coming from that incense you recommended. That even made my cat choke.
Associating different smells with Yi hexagrams is an inspired idea, perhaps the most intriguing olfactory breakthrough since the invention of Smell-o-vision in 1958. I imagine walking down the street, sniffing the sweet fragrance of Hex 61, the heady aroma of Hex 44, the luscious odor of Hex 50, or the acrid smell of Hex 18. But how do hexagrams feel? Do they also have tactile qualities - heft, temperature, texture? Are some solid, some liquid, others gaseous?
Anyway, I really wish Confucius would give us the etymologies for the last two hexagrams. Here is a person who spent many weeks - with little or no encouragement, practically no feedback, almost without notice from the Forum as a whole - posting 62 etymologies at considerable effort and bother to himself. Then he stops, two hexagrams short of completion. Nobody said anything. Weeks go by. Nothing. Until finally we now have the "canonical" text of hexagram 1 in pinyin.
What does this mean? An enigma. It's enough to make me start twitching.
Lindsay
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