I slammed my finger in a cabinet.
As for the word, uncanny, I remember my mother using that word all the time when I was a child. She was/is the oldest of 8 siblings, and most every one of my aunts/uncles/cousins/etc have always treated her as though she were dense ... no wonder she has nervous ticks ... at age 10, she flipped off her handle bars, broke all her front teeth out, and developed Rheumatism. Her farkin' fourth grade teacher made fun of her ... had the entire class of early 1950's gorts laughing at her ... (there is ice in the 21st century gorts' laughter still).
Where am I going with this? Oh, that's right, this word, uncanny. Mom used it all the time. The point? Well, for someone who "society" (which starts with unchosen kin) judges as "dense", The Mother has an elaborate vocabulary, profound emotional intelligence, and a wicked sense of humor ... Enough about her. I'm obviously quite prejudiced (embracing her quirks with affection) since I dropped out of her like a bowel movement. The Father actually referred to me as a little turd. He had no patience for The Mother's "book learning."
Again I wonder where I am going with this. Actually, now that I am the age of the Steppenwolf when he was counting down to when he turned 50 (the day he was going to have an accident while shaving
), I am wondering if uncanny means much more than the context in which The Mother was using it.
The only person I ever heard use this word besides The Mother is Thomas Ligotti. He has a very specific definition ... By the way, the way I keep referring to the creature who I dropped out of as "The Mother" - I picked that up from Chuck Palahniuk's novel,
Choke.
I don't have access to my copy of Ligotti's "Conspiracy," but I remember his use of the word UNCANNY had to do with SUPERNATURAL HORROR. The Universe is indifferent to human happiness.
uncanny1. having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
2. mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange: Uncanny sounds filled the house.
(German: Das Unheimliche, "the opposite of what is familiar")
I don't exist. Isn't that an uncanny statement? What is identity? These tubes ... I will have to continue this "session entry" after I nibble bread/garlic/butter, potatoes, carrots, chicken into orifice, down into the tubes where energy will be produced ... to heat the animal body ...
Where is the I? I am my stomach, no? Is it not uncanny to reflect upon the "head" protruding as an appendage of and slave to the stomach? What are we if not bizarre monsters?
The items and individuals that we project our own repressed impulses upon become a most uncanny threat to us, uncanny monsters and freaks akin to fairy-tale folk-devils, and subsequently often become scapegoats we blame for all sorts of perceived miseries, calamities, and maladies.