01/18/07
A highbrow
needs never to raise an eyebrow to cast an arch glance at the culture around him. His eyebrow is always at arch.
Alas, it is a pity to learn that the term highbrow
comes from phrenology, not some folksier source. It has nothing to do with eyebrows, or hairy eyeball.
It's about the size of the forehead, I think. I'm not going to study phrenology to find out.
But I can hazard this observation: As I age, my forehead is becoming more and more obvious.
By the way, I can raise my right eyebrow independently (for the most part) of the left; but not vice versa. How this affects my ability to give hairy eyeball
should be judged empirically.
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