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On Whistling

there are those of us that whistle--- we do so by forming our lips as if we all spoke french for a day, blowing air out into the world, somehow singing a non-verbal tune in the process--- we pick whatever tunes we like and we hum them, in whistle form, when we awake, while we walk, when we work, when we play & sometimes when we are feeling most silly, excited & dare one even say gleeful--- some of us whistle inward, that is, we suck air into ourselves and somehow find a way to manufacture tones in the process--- there are less of us who whistle this way, i believe, as the cartoon impression of the whistler & its adult contemporary image is always one of the outwardly melodic blower--- regardless of the way in which you whistle, whether you use your tongue & your lips together, your teeth, your hands craftily maneuvered in such a way as to funnel out your best personal horn section, resonate with helmholtz as a human who translates the song of others into your own, filtering them out into the air for others to catch like butterflies, so that they may flutter within, before being released out into the wild again.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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