inside joke
I'm writing a lesson for my Intro to Nonfiction students right now. We're talking about ways to write about Place. One of the ways to do this is to pay attention to how your senses react to a given place.
So I was trying to name the five senses for them. There's taste, touch, vision and smell. And for the longest time, I couldn't remember the fifth one. Finally had to Google for it.
It's hearing.
Of course.
Totally cracked me up.
Comments
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Posted by: Steve Himmer | October 15, 2003 5:53 PM
That's totally hysterical.
Posted by: Michelle | October 17, 2003 4:31 PM
I’d never be at a loss on this one, as I’d just sing the chorus from XTC’s “Senses Working Overtime”:
And all the world is football-shaped
It’s just for me to kick in space
And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste,
And I’ve got one two three four five
Senses working overtime. . . .
Posted by: AKMA | October 22, 2003 10:05 AM
You know, when I read that, I must have written five one or two-liners and erased them. I just wasn't sure whether or not to admit how guilty I felt over laughing over it! But you yourself admitted the joke of it, so I figured it was OK but still, I wasn't brave enough to muster up any more than "that's hysterical" or whatever I said.
Btw, I really love the barthes post quote above and your entry after but it's taken me days to absorb (in my smidgeons of space) what's there and so I can't post to it still. But I know it's a brilliant read on the reader and that jpg was a classic dab to that entry.
Posted by: MP | October 22, 2003 10:06 PM
oops, sorry for the typos...
Posted by: chel | October 22, 2003 10:07 PM