Day: January 27, 2017

Emile’s diary:why do humans have lips?

Emile’s musings

I’m sitting under the coffee table.By rights I should be given some cafe au lait in a traditional French style wide cup with a silver brim plus a matching saucer.I am shocked that Stan has never asked me to partake.I need a coffee break..it’s hard work spying all day!Why are humans so unaware?
I heard Anne talking on her mobile while Stan was looking for the graph paper.She must be talking to another woman…. she said she’s just bought some Revlon primer lotion to put under her light beige mousse foundation.Ye Gods, it sounds as if she’s painting the wall.She was moaning she can’t afford Lancome any more.Mousse foundation..that sounds tasty! She wants some heather coloured lipstick but she couldn’t find any.She’s put a new one on anyway and Stan came in to give his opinion:
Congratulations, Anne.You have found some lipstick that’s exactly the same colour as your own lips.She was mortified.I could see tears in her eyes but luckily she had her waterproof mascara and purple eyeshadow on.
Well, it makes me glad to be a cat…we have no need for skin products
and we have no lips as such.Why do humans have lips?
Is it mainly for kissing?
And perfume………we like the natural odours but I’ve never seen Stan go up and sniff Anne’s nether regions…though I admit I took a sniff and she smells very intriguing… probably some musk she’s bought.
I envy Stan in a way.Because I’d like to kiss Anne but my lips are too small….I could lick hers with my little raspy tongue!
Maybe if she falls asleep I’ll have a go.I love that woman so.
A cat may look at a king, but can he lick a lady’s lips?
Well, must go and take a walk around my territory and sniff out who’s about….face primer.What next.Paint stripper? What a waste of time and money.I could be chasing dandelion clocks round the garden”

Signify: what is the meaning?

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signify
ˈsɪɡnɪfʌɪ/
verb
verb: signify; 3rd person present: signifies; past tense: signified; past participle: signified; gerund or present participle: signifying
  1. 1.
    be an indication of.
    “this decision signified a fundamental change in their priorities”
    synonyms: be evidence of, be a sign of, mark, signal, mean, spell, add up to, amount to, denote, be symptomatic of, be a symptom of, reveal, manifest, designate; More
    • be a symbol of; have as meaning.
      “the church used this image to signify the Holy Trinity”
      synonyms: mean, denote, designate, represent, symbolise, stand for, correspond to, be equivalent to, imply;

      literary betoken
      “the symbol of an egg signifies life”
    • (of a person) indicate or declare (a feeling or intention).
      “signify your agreement by signing the letter below”
      synonyms: express, indicate, show, communicate, intimate; More
      antonyms: withhold, keep secret
    • be of importance.
      “the locked door doesn’t necessarily signify”
      synonyms: mean anything/something, be of importance, be of consequence, be important, be significant, be of significance, carry weight, be of account, count, matter, be relevant;

      informal cut any ice
      “the locked door doesn’t necessarily signify”
  2. 2.
    US informal
    (among black Americans) exchange boasts or insults as a game or ritual.
    “I wasn’t signifying at her”
Origin
Middle English: from Old French signifier, from Latin significare ‘indicate, portend’, from signum ‘token’.

Count: the many meanings

Recount: the meanings

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recount1
rɪˈkaʊnt/
verb
verb: recount; 3rd person present: recounts; past tense: recounted; past participle: recounted; gerund or present participle: recounting
  1. 1.
    tell someone about something; give an account of an event or experience.
    “I recounted the tale to Steve”
    synonyms: tell, relate, narrate, give an account of, describe, portray, depict, paint, unfold, set forth, present, report, outline, delineate, retail, recite, repeat, rehearse, relay, convey, communicate, impart;
noun
noun: recount; plural noun: recounts
  1. 1.
    an act or instance of giving an account of an event or experience.
Origin
late Middle English: from Old Northern French reconter ‘tell again’, based on Old French counter (see count1).
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verb
verb: recount; 3rd person present: recounts; past tense: recounted; past participle: recounted; gerund or present participle: recounting
riːˈkaʊnt/
  1. 1.
    count again.
    “the children arrange and rearrange the objects in a set and recount them each time”
noun
noun: recount; plural noun: recounts
ˈriːkaʊnt/
  1. 1.
    an act of counting something again, especially votes in an election.
    “a three-vote Conservative win after seven recounts”

The heart releases; to its grace we yield

What shall I do , the  widow asked her friend.
I feel this knife inside my heart again.
What  can I do to make my sorrow end
What can I do to stop the bloody  pain?

Do nothing, the  sweet friend  gently advised
Your task is  to  accept   your own despair
The wisdom in your mind will work, she sighed.
Your body hurts and for such  pain we  care.

Sit here and  count the daisies  in the lawn
No need to talk nor even think  nor will.
As in this peaceful sitting for  a day
Your mind will  rest and hope and trust may call.

Receptive to the shivering, daisied  fields,
The heart releases; to  its  grace  we yield

What is acrimony?

You are the hoover of my soul.

My heart was in my mouth [so I had to  suck it all day; gave my thumb a rest]
My heart sank  to the bottom of the pond
I fell head over heels in love with a cat.[That’s why I had no children as inter-species marriage is not yet allowed but soon it will be here]
I could not swallow his excuse as my mouth was full of chocolate buttons I had torn off my uniform..well they looked like chocolate
That is hard to digest.[So may I please spit it out?]
I spat him out [but he came back as he was on an elastic rope]

I was wondering if new phrases come into existence now and I don’t recall any.Is it because we are no longer so involved in creating our language or because there are experts in academia who study it.At one time ordinary people made buildings etc and must have developed skills in geometry etc from a practical point of view.And it was they who invented writing and numbers etc , not people in Universities who do not create but analayse and criticise and study signs and connections.
So has the rise of experts made us stupider than people were in the past?Is it poets who invent new idioms?

My eyes nearly leaped out of my head when he passed by…
Luckily I had put superglue down the sides of them at breakfast time.
My hands grasped the nettle and I almost threw the flowers at his head.Then he said:You are the hoover of my soul.
Walls have fears, you know.
A rolling brick gathers no floss.
I patted him on the wreck and we parted with no acrimony and no real money either.What is acrimony?
I’m a pharisee and ‘i’m ok.Jewish by right and a whirling prayer.
I can’t live without hue or colour
Tint me this day,oh Lord.
Does God sell salt on the internet.He has a Lot.Sorry Lot’s wife.

Each thing must choose again its proper life

 

Before we go to bed   we   vegetate
No need for teacher but  a compost heap.
And as we vegetate, we drift to sleep
While in our dreams  our little mind debates

But mostly we’re  unknowing in this dark
Where  God himself may manifest at will.
His dazzling darkness  makes our souls be still
And wait a strike by living, glowing spark.

But in the morning, we  come  back to  strife
Take up our work and suffer every stroke.
From sapling to the oldest, strongest oak
Each thing must choose again its proper life

Every look we cast at others  strikes
Reflects and shows us what we have become
And when there is no movement,  we are done
Our mind and  heart have chosen what they like.

So in our end , we vegetate again
And  no more rise to labour in the day
For now we  fertilise the fields passed on our way
And show the end of woman and of man.

A  daily round becomes our life and death.
We  live because  we’re  breathed by sacredness