(Shhhhhh: Amos, I'm female. No sex change, kat or even 'gender change'. :)

Interesting discussion. And I agree, BS turns to music, music turns to BS- and ain't that life?

Thinking of body parts and the way we communicate (by the way, I love 'shallow bowels'!), I suspect there's a whole lot that we utilize daily but don't know consciously .

A phrase I'm rather fond of is saying that something 'curdles my spine'. Whether anyone else knows what I mean, I definitely do. And 'bone memory'- one time I cracked my skull on the door jam of a pickup truck, knocking myself out (literally); for years I didn't enter a pickup without an involuntary cringe.

And skin- they say that we can hear better when we have bare skin. I believe it; not only that, I think we instinctively remove some clothing in the presence of music. (Maybe that's why women at the opera have traditionally worn gowns with deep decolletage! I don't know how to explain men's ties and tight collars- is men's hearing better than women's?)

OK, my assumptions have holes - but if I knew more, I could explain it better!