“Meanings” / Memorable Fancies #1096

[“Its meaning is at the disposal of everyone who comes along.” – Marcel Detienne]

     “What is the meaning of this?!” I asked, outraged. They began to explicate, then, the meaning of “meaning,” the need to retain objectivity at all times and to avoid perhaps over-hasty or emotional assumptions; objectivity, that is, except when exploring the flesh of another, her flesh I didn’t expect to be explored by another.