Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 19:26:36 EDT From: baddd jokes Subject: EXERCISE: Can you paint with... Comments: To: rubber chickens? all the colors of the wind? (if you don't know where this comes from, you obviously don't hang around with kids who watch the previews on the videos and sing along with all the songs...coming soon to a video near you, another Disney instant classic rewrite of history!) however, the phenomenon known as synesthesia (syn.es.the.sia \.sin-*s-'the--zh(e--}\ \-'thet-ik\ n [NL, fr. syn- + -esthesia (as in anesthesia)] : a concomitant sensation; esp : a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated - syn.es.thet.ic aj) can be a good one for writers (don't tell your family doctor, they might get all upset when you claim to hear colors or feel smells or hear the fog rustling across the sunset...:-) so, get your die ready... roll... 1. see 2. hear 3. smell 4. taste 5. feel 6. perceive and roll again... 1. colors 2. melodies 3. odors 4. flavors (sweet, sour, bitter, salty?) 5. tactile touch 6. sensations never before experienced... seeing odors? dig a little deeper and expand on that...maybe you are trying to describe a character or place, and want to remind us that they are really quite unclean... Jack was ripe, so fragrant that I could see the waves of B.O. rolling off his sweating body and wafting across to strike me in the face like three-week old gym socks... [well, better exercise next week...] *thump qwerty asdfg zxcvb... fingertip exercises?* tink