Wordless World

The time spent on this planet till now has been laced with an unrecorded list of moments, of evanescent sensations, of the blinks of an eye which have fused subtle hues to my life - like the loops swirling across the surface of water when a loaded paintbrush kisses it gently. The water's colour changes, but ever so quickly drowns within its density.
I'm going to try and recount such moments, some of which have happened once and some which never cease to happen. I doubt if anyone can excavate any word/s for any of these, atleast to my satisfaction. Do you have an Expression for:

1. when you spy upon a splendid solitary singer serenading; unaware that someone's listening?
2. when you spill grape juice on your white tee?
3. when you swallow a wicked joke and/or the bitter truth for a friend who's distressed?
4. when after days of waiting for exams to ceasefire just so that you can sleep without an alarm, you wake up with the first sun ray in your room?
5. when you want to purchase something and you browse, procrastinate, plan, browse, procrastinate, re-plan, browse, procrastinate, re-re-plan and the day you decide to buy it, the store decides to shelve it?
6. when you get the last ticket to the first show of the first day of movie which?
7. when the morning you had thought your toothpaste tube will famish, you manage to squeeze out just enough paste to get you through that day?
8. when cruise alone on a road painted with rain and its hues?
9. when you manage, after a day of making funny faces, to eject that bugging food particle out of a crevice in your teeth?
10. when you share a silent, mutual laugh with a complete stranger on chancing upon a mutual object of observation or interest?
11. when you just about to shut shop and a colleague gleefully, politely dumps some urgent pile of work on you?
12. when a new pen starts off scratchily and betrays the silky smoothness you were prepared for?
13. when you're the last one to cross an intersection just when the light turns red
14. when you think you've put up your jazziest profile pic ever and no one seems to notice it, let alone 'like' it?
15. when the song that has been playing in your head since morning suddenly erupts from an unexpected source in the vicinity around you?

I invite you to add to this list. I'm sure there are many treasures lying hidden within.

I give you a song today which might confuse you, it did to me. Confuse about what? I leave that to you to decide - "a Song on the End of the World" by Csezlaw Milosz.. and tonight, sleep like your mother's favourite child. :)

My Carousel

Lightening, smoky
and from the cocoon of dawn
breaks forth
my cotton candy morn.



My heart rides the wave
I roll, i rumble,
the sun has never been softer
the bridges crumble.

The dusky veil
fairy dust in the air;
molten twilight
the spirit switches gears.


The loon beckons me to join
the mist shrouds
yet the call resounds;
Twinkle toes, ballet poise
taken up in arms
i listen to none but the Pied Piper
On and on goes my carousel.

Moony goes Loony tonight! And oh so enchantingly. :):) This eclipse comes only second to the one i witnessed many years back on a freezing winter night - i woke up @ 2:30am to feast my eyes on it. Today's made it much easier though..inshallah, nihaayiti khoobsurat tha :)
The song for tonight, one of ever so favourites when it comes to the Moony one, "Moondance" by Michael Buble.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABxlQkIOfmA

Trickster Twins

Much time has passed since i came across this outlandish yet silly sounding word - 'paraprosdokian'; yet it still hasn't left me. Reason enough to share it out here i believe. The word's rarity was pressed even further right now, when i typed this word and Blogger's dictionary refused to give it credential as a legible word. Either Google thinks too less of its users' vocab or we think too much of its reach.

All can be pardoned, as Paraprosdokian has emerged as only a 20th century neologism and has come to connote "a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part." Simply put, it creates an anti-climax of varying types and degrees, depending on one's perception and attentiveness. Oh and intelligence, too. Well, guess that last one may exclude many people from being a possible appreciator. Did i hear the word 'offensive'? I'm sorry but if i agree, we'd both be wrong.

And at this juncture, allow me to throw in another similar psycho-linguistic stunt with a throwaway name - Garden path sentence. It refers to "grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that the readers' most likely interpretation will be incorrect; they are lured into an improper parse that turns out to be a dead end." Tricky waters indeed; needless to say, only the sharp man the boat.

Both of these end up catching us off guard, throwing us back to where we started. No wonder, these twins are loved in the community of comedians & satirists. Public personalities have gone on record with either, controversially at times, which include:

1. "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else." - Winston Churchill

2. "If i could say a few words, i would be a public speaker." - Homer Simpson

3. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

4. "Mark my words. No, Mark, i really need my words." - Stephen Colber

5. "I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car." - Bob Monkhouse

If i could extend it to a bigger stage - could one have a Paraprosdokian Life? Would one like to have one? A life which belies the beaten path and  near the end, churns up something no one, including you, had ever anticipated, given your history? The thought conjures up an arresting, tempting scenario - the kind that would make for a hot-selling biography once you're gone. Find another career Jobs. So, lets see, on one hand it could make you famous, while on the other hand, i wear on ring.

ps. If you tried to spy examples of either of the aforementioned figures of speech, apart from the quotes mentioned, you should find 3 of 'em. No more, no less. Exactement troi. Don't look at me doubtfully. I admit i used to be indecisive. But now i'm not so sure...

The song today, will be a personally Paraprosdokian one for me. By the Band named Touch and go, the song "Would you?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izBbP2kro-c