peekaboo LILO grin tree
child happiness
open eyes ---this is what I look like because I believe in you!
little fist held ~ eagerness, anticipation, delight ~ a tension
I love to see her postures, undesigned
and actually looking like a caricature, or what would do to signal an emotion, make it large, like on stage.
delight really looks like that? interest really has you leaning forward. or looking up at an airplane, mouth shaped oooh ahh pursed circle.
The Hand That First Held Mine p83: She moves the rattle from side to side and the coloured beads ricochet around inside their clear globes. The effect on the baby is instantaneous and remarkable. His limbs stiffen, his eyes spring wide, his lips part in a perfect round O. It is as if he studied a manual on how to be a human being, with attention to the chaper, 'Demonstrating Surprise.'
sorter studied (Brer Rabbit). later, actually. designed. assumed, tried. stances, attitudes, postures.
A Mind At Peace opening page: His first order of business was to hire a nurse. Given that neither Ihsan's wife nor his mother ever stepped away from the sickbed, the children languished in ruin. The elderly servant could easily handle Ahmet but someone had to fully occupy his little sister Sabiha. More than anything she needed an interlocutor. As Mumtaz mused, he smiled inwardly at the various postures of his little niece.
