Monday, July 26, 2004
a typical Practical criticism lesson:
somehow we were cross examining this poem and there was this phrase about kisses being "teeth in your palm" to which of course sparked off a spurious debate about the significance of teeth in a palm.
MR Perry, ever so wisely, pointed out that it probably meant dryness, bone and dust. to which we all replied with a rather confused "HUH"? but why TEETH?! why PALM? did people in those days associate intimacy with kissing on the palms?
well well we didn't know. therefore it was only right that we just had to try it out for ourselves first hand. after giving Mr Perry an intensely bewildered look, i proceeded to kiss the palm of my hand with a dramatic flourish... "like this????" i asked Mr perry. seeing my rather contemplative and earnest demonstration, he was gravely shocked and disturbed.
Joel remarked that it was probably some kinda Aztec Burial Ritual and Eng Siang contributed the idea of knocking the teeth of the bereaved out and putting them in the palms of the dead as a memento for them to safekeep.
Mr Perry continued blushing and remained terribly disturbed by our enthusiasism. Charlene then giggled that in olden times people probably took out dentures and placed them in the deads' palms. that was a very non-painful way of supposedly knocking your own teeth out i suppose. and dear ole Andre had to end with a "Ah... that means the dead has an even older lover."
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Mr Perry was devastated Joyce Lim unzipped at 9:28 PM with 2 comments
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