--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > <snip> > > And what are those Nosers of Reality all about? > > > > I think Socrates nailed it when he said "nose thyself". > > > > But as I always say, what my girl friend doesn't nose won't hurt > > her. > > > > Reveal thy wisdom unto me. I wants to nose. > > A nosological primer: > > ...You might have said at least a hundred things > By varying the tone. . .like this, suppose,. . . > Aggressive: 'Sir, if I had such a nose > I'd amputate it!' Friendly: 'When you sup > It must annoy you, dipping in your cup; > You need a drinking-bowl of special shape!' > Descriptive: ''Tis a rock!. . .a peak!. . .a cape! > --A cape, forsooth! 'Tis a peninsular!' > Curious: 'How serves that oblong capsular? > For scissor-sheath? Or pot to hold your ink?' > Gracious: 'You love the little birds, I think? > I see you've managed with a fond research > To find their tiny claws a roomy perch!' > Truculent: 'When you smoke your pipe. . .suppose > That the tobacco-smoke spouts from your nose-- > Do not the neighbors, as the fumes rise higher, > Cry terror-struck: "The chimney is afire"?' > Considerate: 'Take care,. . .your head bowed low > By such a weight. . .lest head o'er heels you go!' > Tender: 'Pray get a small umbrella made, > Lest its bright color in the sun should fade!' > Pedantic: 'That beast Aristophanes > Names Hippocamelelephantoles > Must have possessed just such a solid lump > Of flesh and bone, beneath his forehead's bump!' > Cavalier: 'The last fashion, friend, that hook? > To hang your hat on? 'Tis a useful crook!' > Emphatic: 'No wind, O majestic nose, > Can give THEE cold!--save when the mistral blows!' > Dramatic: 'When it bleeds, what a Red Sea!' > Admiring: 'Sign for a perfumery!' > Lyric: 'Is this a conch?. . .a Triton you?' > Simple: 'When is the monument on view?' > Rustic: 'That thing a nose? Marry-come-up! > 'Tis a dwarf pumpkin, or a prize turnip!' > Military: 'Point against cavalry!' > Practical: 'Put it in a lottery! > Assuredly 'twould be the biggest prize!' > Or. . .parodying Pyramus' sighs. . . > 'Behold the nose that mars the harmony > Of its master's phiz! blushing its treachery!' > --Such, my dear sir, is what you might have said, > Had you of wit or letters the least jot... > > --Edmond Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
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