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February 07, 2005
Scars
I know it’s back there, the same way I intimately know everything else back there.
Only by touch.
Every time I shave my head, I don’t use a mirror for the back of my head. I don’t need it. I get out of the shower, defog the mirror, and throw scalding hot water all over my skull. I lather with my hands with the best shaving cream, then I carefully roam with the triple-blade flexible razor in my right hand, followed immediately by my left hand to guarantee smoothness. I know every bump, every flat spot, every irregularity that a phrenologist could interpret as either a strength or flaw in my character.
A few years ago, I developed a cyst/growth on the back of my head. I had to have it removed as my family has a wonderful history of skin cancer, and my memento is a small red puckered area.
I call it the on/off button. I really only know it by touch, as it has a slight cratered feel, and the lip is deeper on the bottom side. It’s oblate, and about a centimeter in diameter.
If one could read a person’s psyche from their skull, what does it say about me? When I moved to NY, did I excise some part of myself? Do I have some emotional blemish, something I can’t see directly, something that is clearly obvious to people around me? Or is it like damage that is healed but with the scarred reminder so I can’t ever forget it?
It’s probably just an on/off button. I bet some people have wished occasionally for that.
Posted by G at February 7, 2005 08:23 PM
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It sounds like you are a "holy" man. I have a very pronounced nuchal torus and inion on my occipital.
Posted by: homer at February 8, 2005 01:27 PM