I live in an egg

January 11, 2007

I live in a funny little island and there’s something new happening every day.

It’s an egg. A lizard egg in the mud.

I live in an egg.

Shall we talk about the word egg? So self contained, open and outgoing at first and then blocked and locked. And since one "g" wasn’t enough to lock and seal the egg, they decided to put two. EgG, ok? Even if you manage to trespass the first g,  there’s another defence g to protect the inside.  So much more meaningful than its Italian equivalent UOVO , which is just an onomatopoeia of when the egg is rolling vertically on the table, before falling. If you listen closely, it sounds like this: UUUUH OOOOOH UUUUH OOOO. Hence, UOVO. Which also contains OVO, a round word symbolizing the roundness of the egg and of life. Now, in french the word oeuf does not make any sense. Except that it recalls the sound you make when you are dropping the egg. "Oeuffff, shit, I dropped the egg!!!!". In German, endlich, Ei is so similar to the English "Eye". After all, eggs kind of look like eyeballs.