Friday, June 6, 2014

140606 6of18 him / hymn

Synonyms, they sound alike, but don't mean the same.
Deer / Dear  Him / Hymn

Like people, they can have the same name, but not be at all alike.

Sam and Sam comes to mind.

Sam(a) was meticulous in everything he did.  Totally driven to perfection, the slightest item out of balance would cause a crisis.  He really was meticulous, inspiring, and admirable.

Sam(b) was a slovenly drunk, with a brain like a supercomputer.  Nothing passed it's intellect without inspection.  Not at all charismatic, Sam(b) looked like he smelt bad, although he was hygienic to an unexpected degree.

They never met, although one might suspect some sort of critical mass would occur, with them ending up melting into each other, emerging as one solitary human, no longer on either edge of the human spectrum, but plunked down nearly in the middle, relating and relate-able to everyone who met him.

Such would be a desirable occurrence from both Sam's perspectives, but I'm afraid that will have to happen only in Fantasy Land, since in this lifetime those Sam's were well away from each other...

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Frish