Does your nose and ears ever stop growing?
My father used to tell us that nose never stops growing. That is why senior citizens have long drooping noses like a birds beak. And I noticed this was true. In fact in cartoons and even in television when someone older and wiser appears their nose seems to be grown far more than any of us. Is this true? Does your nose, and ears never stops growing?
Scientific explanation, Myth about ever growing nose and ears.
Before going into the discussion of myth and philosophy of pinnochio nose I would like to straighten the facts with science. No, it is not true. Noses and ears stop growing. Actually around age of 20, bones of the nose fuse and they stop growing. Even nose cartilage stops expanding. Yet as we already know we replace cells in every part of our body including cartilage and bone. Hence as a person ages, cartilage changes its consistancy and becomes little soft. So the gravity itself is enough to make the ears and noses of senior citizens droop a little. In parallal with this the cheecks and rest of the face loose its fat and thick nature making drooping ears and nose more prominent. And there is no truth in its association with wisdom or knowledge! Yet I can confirm nose has some erectile tissue in it, which helps to warm and humidify air and not for lovemaking fortunately.
Pinocchio's nose.
Now this is rarther interesting topic. Not only pinocchio is wooden, he had this remarkable nose, which actually grows. When he lies about anything. I wonder what happened if humans did posess some nose which had the ability to do the same. I am sure such a curse would give miles and miles long noses to some of us. I do not spare myself here. Maybe except for the thief who did not lie, and every kid before being corrupted every one of us in the current human population would have to carry a wheelbarrow to bring our noses with us.
I am sure the fashion industry would find some kind of nice jwellary to wear on top of this nose, and they would develop nose gloss or nose paint to decorate it with. Instead of nail centers, there would be deplomas in vocational training facilities to promote such art. While artists find extra use from their noses, engineers would use them to messure distances. I am sure Apple.Ic would make use of these noses to mount some wireless hearing devices in tip of them, so that housewives can hear all the gossip of the entire neighbourhood while cooking in the kitchen!
Election debates would be non other than each of the presidential candidate lying about the true lengths of their noses. And I am sure some would use media to generate falsified facts about how short their own noses are than the other. And still the citizens would find it difficult to determine true lengths of their own candidates, and would toss a coin at the booth before marking their ballots.
Job of a judge would be easier as he just has to ask questions. There would be no need for a lie detector, as nobody would be dare to speak nothing but truth in the court as they swear. And lawyers duty would be to messure the nose legth of the witness after each such question, forgetting their own nose lengths.
On the other hand the job of a priest would be difficult, as he no longer could preach about things he do not know hence a lie. I am sure such would be hard to find even for a funeral or for that matter for a wedding.
Pinocchio wisdom
Sometimes it is hilarious, sometimes it is dreadful to think about such a society. But I am sure there would be more and more seekers of truth in the world, if we made the truth appear so obvious like a pinnocio nose. As in not so cursed current version of the God's creation, truth always stabilise in the bottom of the river as it is too heavy for anyone to grasp. Only the less dense grabage floats everywhere for us to see. And maybe answer to a more wiser society is in the nose after all. And that is what pinocchio wisdom means.
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