Paroxysm and Diaphanous

Miney: Since we didn’t post yesterday, today we have two words that we are going to use instead of just one.

The first word is paroxysm which is a noun that means any sudden and violent emotion or outburst.

The second word is diaphanous which is an adjective that means allowing light to pass through; of such fine texture as to allow light to pass through; translucent or transparent. It can also mean vague, insubstantial.

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When I look at photos others take of me, I always encounter a sharp internal paroxysm of denial; the images in those photos are of an imposter, posing as me, and she is not doing a very good job!

In most of the pictures the impersonator wears no makeup to hide the freckles on her fair skin, and her dark short hair is curly and unruly. That insufferable woman has a thin angular face with sharp cheekbones and parenthetical indentations on either side of a goofy, sometimes tentatively uncertain smile. She has lots of straight teeth, but the right front tooth is always appears slightly discolored, and her left eyebrow always seems arched up into the shape of a comma while the right brow seems paralyzed; her eyes are always squinted closed so a color can’t be distinguished, and yet her skin is so diaphanous, the bluish veins in her neck are clearly visible. And to top it all off, her large bulbous nose, under the eyes laced with wrinkles, has that one damn dark-brown freckle, right at the end, exactly in the middle.

I am left wondering, yet again, how it happens that my true photogenic image, the one that I know of as me, has never ever been quite captured on film.

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