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is an appendage worn in a ring, and of great use in taking snuff.

Finger - an appendage worn in a ring, and of great use in taking snuff.

Our fingers see the night like cats, but we never know it. In order to learn visual information from our fingertips we would have to shut our physical eyes into a psychic gaze as the blind do.

's concerted actions rely on minds of different capacities located each in a different member of the hand; command and initiative pass from one finger to the next as the whole hand requires for any of the intelligent demands it makes on its fingers at any particular moment.

The index finger is in complete charge of the other fingers when the hand “sails” toward an object—like the admiral’s flagship leading the squadron. And the little finger acts as commanding general whenever the hand grips or seizes 6 something. As soon as the hand strikes out as a fist, the thumb takes over: boxers’ thumbs are their most intelligent fingers. The ring finger is the animating spirit of all intertwining, supple, and intentional gestures, as in knitting, sewing, and rocking a cradle. And the middle finger dominates all the unconscious movements of the hand, when the mind is somewhere else. Command and initiative pass from one finger to the next as the whole hand requires for any of the intelligent demands it makes on its fingers at any particular moment. The concerted actions of the fingers rely on minds of different capacities located each in a different member of the hand, just as the human body is made up of an infinite variety of its own intelligent zones.

is the carpentry of gesture, just as the palm is its masonry.

A man uses his fingers more than a child, who depends on his palm. These are, respectively, the carpentry and masonry of gesture.

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