Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Cryptic Witches One and All!

ORAL GRATIFICATION OR MENTAL MASTURBATION

What an exquisite and intricate organ is the mind of mankind. We developed the ability to communicate through spoken language in order to express our thoughts to each other, to communicate ideas precisely, which means nicely. On average people use a lexicon of 50,000 words to facilitate this function. About 50% of everything that we say or write in the English language will utilize only 100 words and yet we have created a vocabulary encompassing millions of expressions. To what purpose?
We want to play. Whatever you want to call your favoured form of mental gymnastics, whether it be as high faluting as philosophy as base as innuendo or as simple as word association, we all participate in the game at some level, some of us at every level.
What dizzying heights of convolution will we reach then with our high tech toys, our internet intimacies with faceless friends? You are some of the nicest people I have never met. Or are you? At its best blogging opens the door to the formation of friendship based on a level of honesty impossible to achieve anywhere else. Who am I if not my thoughts and ideas? The need for duplicity is destroyed, what use is a mask when your face cannot be seen. You cannot judge on appearances when you are blinded by the light. In years to come will we say love at first insight?

Are you a cryptic witch? You ask
And I hasten to reply.
What else would you have me be?
When I’m writing in the sky.

A mystical minx? Maybe.
An incomprehensible siren?
A secretive sorceress perhaps
Or a recondite beldam

I am all and none of these.
Which witch would you like?
I aim to please.
But whether it’s your or my gratification,
That provides the impetus for my oration
I will leave in the air to enhance the titillation.

16 comments:

G-Man said...

Never be too revealing
It's fun to be slightly concealing.

You play well Cathy...

Thanks,...... Galen.

limpy99 said...

Noticed the discworld novels in your profile. My mother-in-law keeps giving me those. I can't remember any names, but I generally like them, although some tend to start going on and on and on and on. I'm thinking the Holywood one in particular.

Enemy of the Republic said...

Can I link you? You are awesome! Any friend of Pug's is a friend of mine! This is a great post--I would like to be a more faithful reader.

puerileuwaite said...

Great post! And if I use my special template, it reveals a coded, filthy message just for me. This is way better than Sudoku! I shall call it "Seduce-ku".

G-Man said...

Cathy!! Damn it...

S said...

Sorry Cathy, no 55 til weekend...you can play though!

G-Man said...

Good Morning Cathy!

It is here anyway...

You call it writing in the sky...

I call it words on a screen...

My daughters in Athens right now.....G-Man

Mona said...

I call it writing on water..erased as soon as it is written...
I call That Life...

Queenie said...

Thats heavy man.......

Logophile said...

ooooooo,
nicely said.
I like it,
I like it alot.

Cathy said...

I love this post and am currently ticked off that I didn't write it. :D

I absolutely love, love, love the poem at the end!

Serena said...

Wonderful words,
Worthy of seconds and thirds...

Beautifully done, Cathy.

cathy said...

g-man, compliments and cusses, what can I say?
Words on a screen, I'm glad I didn't think of that. What's your daughter doing in Athens? Is she going to be here at Easter.

limpy, I've read them all several times Terry Prachett is my hero.

enemy ot R, you are tooo kind, thankyou.

puerilewaite, like I said " I aim to please"

cathy said...

barefoot-mistress, not sure that I will have time this week.

mona, that's the ticket. We could teach g-man a thing or two.

queenie, I alternate, next up light relief.

logopile, where the hell do you guys get these weird names from?

groovy lady, You will be on my links when I update them. love your blog.

Cathy said...

Very cool! Thanks for that, I've got you added as well. :)

My name is Cathy too btw.

Anonymous said...

Great post and thought provoking.
Sometimes I think we talk too much.
tc