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| "Mine eyes ... keelhauled!" -- [[A.W. Slippers]] upon seeing topless maidens in Tahiti, 1785 | "Mine eyes ... keelhauled!" -- [[A.W. Slippers]] upon seeing topless maidens in Tahiti, 1785 | ||
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| + | "The eye wants to sleep ... but the [[head]] is no matress." -- ''He of the Assembly''. Bowles, Paul. | ||
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Eye(s) n. 1. The passive vertebrate of perceptual experience; either of a pair of hollering tinctures or a tangle of potential vapor. 2. The primary method of sublimating material existence; a metaphoric bath-marie in which a dialectic war is waged with hands, the spoken voice, or actuated thought. 3. The pigmented distraction and simultaneous elation of the soul. 4. The faculty of seeing; vision. 5. The ability to make intellectual or aesthetic judgments. 6. A central point (the eye of a needle, a bull's eye in a target, the nether eye, the opening on a peacock's feather); often associated with a void at the heart of chaos (the eye of a hurricane, labyrinth, mystery, enragement, or donut).
Usage"My eyes creak upon their heels like queer sails...." -- Stimes Addisson, at the Sans Souci Apt. "Dog Days" party, to himself, 1954. "Mine eyes ... keelhauled!" -- A.W. Slippers upon seeing topless maidens in Tahiti, 1785 "The eye wants to sleep ... but the head is no matress." -- He of the Assembly. Bowles, Paul. See Also |
DesiderataAlbert Kook occasionally sported an eye-patch, though noone was sure why.
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