^* Oh who says the mouth says anything. The mouth, tongue, convex & concave surfaces of the membranal capacitator, able to invest “cooking”. Attached to the organs of digestion, & for that matter, to the lungs & respiratory organs. The lungs. A surface 25 times greater than the skin, folded. 500 million doorways directly into the blood.

All this is the blood then. A dark vigour. A passage. But whose sobriety wakened? Who pressed through?