Breath

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Offspring

The Swing DoorAnswering Breath, Phobopnoe reciprocaby symbiosisHesychologyStillness Gauge, Hesychometra gradataby successionShared BreathChoir Lung, Synpnoe choricaby pollinationSubtractive PhenomenologyLantern of Less, Aphaeresis sensoriaby succession

Food web

• feeds the mechanism of Fear → its mechanism
  Fear floods the body and quickens the breath; the rhythm Breath keeps without thinking is the first thing fear changes.
• feeds its output → the intake of Fear
  Breath gives a pace that calms or quickens the whole body; Fear feeds on signs of threat, and a fast shallow breath is read as one.
• friction its kernel rubs against the decay of Fear
  Breath cannot stop; Fear held too long hardens into dread. The one keeps going, the other gets stuck.
• pollinated the dispersal of Music → its kernel
  Music travels by ear, voice to voice; Breath's premise is a rhythm kept without thinking, and a sung phrase sets exactly when the singer must breathe. The vector can carry the premise.
• feeds its output → the intake of Music
  Breath gives voice and song; Music feeds on vibration, and the voice is its first instrument.
• homology its mechanism resembles the mechanism of Music
  Both are rhythms that bodies fall into, the breathing cycle and the musical pulse.
• friction its decay rubs against the decay of Music
  Breath cannot be stored or held; Music, grown too familiar, wears into background. One fails by stopping, the other by repeating.
• feeds its output → the intake of Qualia
  Breath gives a pace that calms the whole body; a steady breath is the oldest instrument for holding attention on experience.
• friction its mechanism rubs against the decay of Qualia
  Qualia cannot be measured or shared; Breath is measured easily, a rhythm in the brainstem. One is all inside, the other readable from outside.

Kin

same kind in Roget Amber, Chiaroscuro, Chimera, Entelechy, Iridescence, Music, Silence, Tinnitus, Vertigo, Shared Breath

same kind in Wilkins Awakening, Shared Breath

same kind in WordNet Awakening, Entelechy, Entropy, Erosion, Fire, Metamorphosis, Petrification, Rushmaker, Shared Breath, Self-Ending Order, Tongue Horizon, Witnessed Relief, Gazeroot (second reading), Commemorative Revision, The Swing Door

same kind in Llull Entelechy, Metamorphosis, Spring

same phylum Ash, Echolalia, Lullaby, Metamorphosis, Resonance, Commemorative Revision, The Swing Door, Tide of Days, Simultaneous Remembering, Poetry

same dominant organ Ash, Miracle, Pointillism, River, Sand, Wind, Witnessed Relief

Genome

• rhythm also in The Swing Door, Music, Poetry, Shared Breath, Syllable, Trance
• exchange
• air
• voice also in Echolalia, Lullaby, Poetry, Possession, Shared Breath
• life

Echoes

• a cloud of breath on a cold morning
• a sigh
• the breath blown into clay
• a singer's held note