lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2011

Some Misunderstood Words and a Nice Quote

Memory. A powerful yet painful brain ability. That reminds us of what we did in the past. A partner to the conscious, yet a reminder of our mistakes, tragedies and unconformities.  It can be used as a tool, for some exam for example, or as a mean for remembering a person's name, but somehow it is not precisely used for that rather as a mean of remembrance of what we really want to forget. "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget" (Pg. 12), a moral compass to our lives, yet a contributor to our lack of priorities. Memory causes emotions, it contributes to our actions and most importantly it creates our past, yet it prevents us from moving on.

"He descended into a gryke in the stone and there he crouched coughing and he coughed for a long time" (Pg. 11)

Gryke:

 
-Noun
A solution fissure, a vertical crack about 0.5 m wide formed bythe dissolving of limestone by water, that divides an exposedlimestone surface into sections or clints.


"Have you a neck by which to throttle you" (Pg. 11)
Throttle:
- verb (used with object)
1.
to stop the breath of by compressing the throat; strangle.
2.
to choke or suffocate in any way.
3.
to compress by fastening something tightly around.
4.
to silence or check as if by choking: His message wasthrottled by censorship.
Machinery.
a.
to obstruct or check the flow of (a fluid), as to controlthe speed of an engine.
b.
to reduce the pressure of (a fluid) by passing it from asmaller area to a larger one.




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