Appropriate Facts
Here are a few facts appropriate to 28 June of this and just about any other year.
House cats -- at least the ones that live with us -- reserve raising their voices strictly for use against other cats, when the decibels can become numerous and sustained. A human being rates that response only when he steps on one and then just for a split-second and sometimes not even then. Is this peculiarity repeated in human behavior, especially in the greater ferocity of civil wars?
Japanese beetles -- at least the ones that live with us -- are awesome in their selectivity. They are like art thieves who have broken into a gallery and only go for the best paintings.
Italians -- though there are none living with us -- have the most beautiful and coolest names of any group, by far. I love my own name, but "Berraducci" wouldn't have been a bad handle either. American Indians are a close second, in the names of their tribes and in those that they take for themselves personally, from nature. "Crazy Horse" has never really been equalled. But their music, as an expression from yesteryear had it, is "from hunger." It is badly in need of a rhythm section.
House cats -- at least the ones that live with us -- reserve raising their voices strictly for use against other cats, when the decibels can become numerous and sustained. A human being rates that response only when he steps on one and then just for a split-second and sometimes not even then. Is this peculiarity repeated in human behavior, especially in the greater ferocity of civil wars?
Japanese beetles -- at least the ones that live with us -- are awesome in their selectivity. They are like art thieves who have broken into a gallery and only go for the best paintings.
Italians -- though there are none living with us -- have the most beautiful and coolest names of any group, by far. I love my own name, but "Berraducci" wouldn't have been a bad handle either. American Indians are a close second, in the names of their tribes and in those that they take for themselves personally, from nature. "Crazy Horse" has never really been equalled. But their music, as an expression from yesteryear had it, is "from hunger." It is badly in need of a rhythm section.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 8:41 AM
2 Comments:
Ah, I'd suggest you get yourself a copy of R. Carlos Nakia's Songs From The Rainbow World. You might come to appreciate Native American music a bit more.
I'm no linquist, but I love the study of language (even if I forget most vocabulary). Italian is definitely my favorite. It's impossible to speak Italian correctly without using every muscle in your mouth and preferably punctuating with your arms & hands.
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