walking language
apparently poetry recitation and walking are good for the heart. dactylic hexameter, the old greco-roman meter, has particular benefits to the heart. this makes sense as it's essentially what is known as the walking beat in african rhythms. 12312312312312312. it reminds me of bruce chatwin's discussion of universal grammar in relation to humanity's nomadic nature--that language evolved from this particular rhythm, evidence of which is the tripartite organization of language: subject, object verb (in any particular order), 123, walk on. quite intertesting.
in the vein of universal grammar, i read yesterday that according to some anthropological linguistic institute over 700 of the 1000 languages they have extensive records of contain the word papa in reference to father. common origins . . .