More thumbs

I’m still puzzling over the question that was raised in a thought-provoking message I received off blog about why certain preoccupations are okay and others are taboo; why it’s ok to make fun of people who like toes, for instance. When it’s demonstrably clear that I like thumbs. And the thumb is like the big toe of the hand and so on. I suppose I could make an argument about the relevance of the thumb to the rhetorical device of synecdoche (substituting the part for the whole). But that seems a bit evasive. And you already know I was skirting the point last time by using the Latin term, which somehow seems to make it ok in my mind, anyway. As a broader observation: seen from this corner of the world, thumbs seem to have fewer fans than toes. In general, once I refer to any topic on the blog I start to see search terms related to it, but so far no one has googled “Richard Armitage” and “thumbs.”

In other words: I have no answer to the question yet.

In lieu of an answer, here are three more “thumb shots.”

Steven (Richard Armitage) changes the angle of the security camera so he can better see Kath in Frozen. There’s something about watching a man with elegant hands move a lever gently. My cap.

Lucas North (Richard Armitage) examines a cartridge of Minox film that he’s picked up on his jaunt to Russia during the exposure of the mole in Section D in Spooks 7.7. My cap. This is such a funny moment, insofar as one imagines that spies are no longer using Minox cameras, though they were in use in the 1980s, at the tense end of the Cold War, when the Teirisias images were probably taken.

Lucas North (Richard Armitage) uses a device to copy a SIM card in Spooks 9.2. My cap. Love the shape created by the left index finger here.

Probably the main upshot of all of this is that although his fingernails look healthy, Mr. Armitage should consider moisturizing along his cuticles when he has a “clean” hand shot coming up. On the other hand, his cuticles look about like mine, so it does add a note of verisimilitude to the whole thing. One doesn’t imagine that security guards and spies have a lot of spare time to be getting manicures.

And yeah. This post totally evaded the actual question that prompted it. I just wanted to show you some thumb pictures.

~ by Servetus on September 30, 2010.