Trafika Europe 14 - Italian Piazza

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KISSING, SIMPLY KISSING

If the tongue stiffens and clinks with its everymovement around the mouth, this indicates fatigue. No wonder that spoken words set out on their paths tightly wound, unfolding their full meaning only hours later. Many are so bashful they refuse to take off their clothes. As a listener, one feels that an unobstructed view of things is thus compromised and one’s own words refuse to leave the space of the mouth, while unfolded foreign words puff themselves up, so that any earhole becomes too small. All is thrown out of balance: Thoughts, sounds, and their intonation; everything seems to run up against itself, inflict damage on itself—that ’s why it ’s high time to give the tongue back its old agility, make it soft and supple, and based on our long-term experience, we recommend: kissing, simply kissing.

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