{"id":67,"date":"2018-04-15T22:06:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T22:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2018-04-15T22:13:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T22:13:19","slug":"without-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/journal\/without-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adoxa;\u00a0 A-doxa:\u00a0 <\/em>without doxa, as in a<\/em>symmetry, a<\/em>sexual, a<\/em>theism.\u00a0 So\u00a0doxa\u00a0<\/em>is apparently glory, yes.\u00a0 It kind of makes sense given orthodoxy (look it up), Chionodoxa<\/em>, the glory-of-the-snow, replete with its hyphens unlike what might otherwise have been the glory of the morning.\u00a0 And lovers and prostitutes were doxies.\u00a0 Oddly OED says origin unknown, but they were probably glorious, at least some of them.<\/p>\n

So up it pops, every year, quietly, round about now. Fascinating, faithful, unique.\u00a0 Makes you glad you live around here.\u00a0 I never heard anyone call it townhall clock let alone five-faced bishop, already three faces more than is good for anyone, let alone a prelate.\u00a0 In fact, I like this name, but you can’t just start calling something by a name you’ve never used before can you?<\/p>\n

No glory, but rebelliousness nonetheless.\u00a0 The cubic inflorescence is no more than a minimal umbel, but why four<\/em> flowers plus one?<\/p>\n

Why a PA system informing the hills of the north, the isles of the southern seas, the awaking lands of the east and the shores of the utmost west? They get five petals each but the skywards one only four.\u00a0 There is an evolutionary whodunit here, like the sepals on a rose.\u00a0 Wtf?<\/p>\n

And why choose green?\u00a0 Not the scaly green of the grass’ bracts, but a full-blown flower, in the company of\u00a0Veratrum\u00a0<\/em>and the hellebores.\u00a0 But then I suppose who am I to cast nasturtiums on a plant’s evolutionary satnav when it’s probably the insects in the driving seat.\u00a0 Hang on a minute!\u00a0 Pollinators can’t see colour.\u00a0 So maybe the colours we see are inadvertent?\u00a0 There’s no reason for the green other than that some unrelated biological process has switched off a gene for red paint, leaving yellow?\u00a0 Or in this case green.\u00a0 Flower arrangers, sick from diversity, crave this sometimes.<\/p>\n

So fascinating, faithful and unique<\/span>, but most obviously without glory.\u00a0 Without the sunbeams bursting through the clouded blue and lighting up the ceiling where saints frolic, each in a cassock of a different primary colour.\u00a0 But not so fast, Batman!\u00a0 Along come the knights in shining armour of APG III.\u00a0 Caprifoliaceae is split, and elderberries and Viburnum hived off, and the Adoxaceae has priority, and suddenly moschatel makes a burst for the line and eclipses even Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn, <\/em>no less, getting its moment on the podium.\u00a0 The odds had seemed somewhere between Slim and none, and slim had just left town.<\/p>\n

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Adoxa;\u00a0 A-doxa:\u00a0 without doxa, as in asymmetry, asexual, atheism.\u00a0 So\u00a0doxa\u00a0is apparently glory, yes.\u00a0 It kind of makes sense given orthodoxy (look it up), Chionodoxa, the glory-of-the-snow, replete with its hyphens unlike what might otherwise have been the glory of the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}