Fists

Certainly the pressure received from the blow of a balled-up fist of fingers can deliver a more robust potentiality for fracturing and hemorrhaging of the struck opponent than could a hand of limp fingers traveling at the same velocity. I do not recommend either, on zygomatic (cheek) bone or a brick wall for that matter. But I do recommended rapidly squeezing your fist tightly around a stress ball and taking slow deep breaths if all this talk of fists and using them combatively has you hyperventilating and looking for the nearest safe space with coloring books and bubbles. Nonetheless, this is not necessarily the type of fists that I’m interested in anyway. The term ‘fist’ can also refer to one’s idiosyncratic style of writing or communicating, particularly in an open forum, like on a message board or even through the transmittance of Morse code over the radio. For example, one’s ‘fist’ would describe how they implore certain styles of punctuation, like commas (like the one I just used), or how many words their sentences contain on average, how broad their vocabulary is, and if they tend to start or end their messages a certain way. Through this method one could discern, with reasonable confidence, the identity of an otherwise unknown communicator whose style of writing or communication could be vetted against their other work or production. Even in Morse code, the delay time between letters, words, and sentences could be and was used to determine what admirals and generals were in certain locations in Germany by the Allies and was pivotally strategic in intel gathering. Extending farther, a ‘fist’ could even be assigned to the style of communication regarding the use of analogies, metaphors, tone, etc. If the Master teacher and communicator had a signature ‘fist’ it would have been the employment of parables, which really are most helpful in extracting moral principles, both for young and old. And I doubt he ever used them with a clinched fist, but rather with an open hand.