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chaalaak : 'Active, alert, fleet, nimble, quick, smart; expert, dexterous; clever, ingenious; laborious, hard-working; vigilant; artful, cunning, designing, astute'. (Platts p.418)
chaalaak-dast : 'Expert of hand, dexterous, adroit, clever'. (Platts p.418)
FWP:
SETS
MOTIFS == CHAK-E GAREBAN
NAMES
TERMSWhat is the object of our 'expectant/hopeful' feeling? SRF says it's for our dextrous hands to manage to continue the ripping even further. Or else we could be hoping that the beloved might, even now, be moved by our mad plight and give us at least a small shred of her attention.
For surely one purpose of this dramatic garment-rending show of madness was to attract her notice? Might she not enjoy the spectacle of such an extravagant, maximal display-- a crazed lover who doesn't just rip open his collar, but goes right on ripping down to the hem of his garment, and doesn't want to stop even then?