8. The rotary movement of the head alone signifies negation, that is
_no_.
If the movement ends toward the interlocutor, it is simple negation.
If the movement ends opposite to him, it is negation with distrust.
9. The rotative and forward inflection would denote exaltation.
The sense of this response,--"I do not know," when tidings of a friend
are asked, may be divined by an inflection of the head.
It is well to note how these movements are transmitted from agent to
agent.
All movements which severally affect the head, the hand, the body and
the leg, may affect the whole.
Thus the movement of negation is made by the hand. This movement is
double. There is negation with direct resolution, and negation with
inverse resolution, which is elliptical. The hand recoils as the head
recoils, and when the head makes the movement of impatience, the hand
rises with the head and says:--"Leave me alone, I do not wish to hear
you."
It is curious to see an inflection pass successively from the head to
the hand, from the hand to the eye, from the eye to the shoulders, from
the shoulders to the arms, from the arms to the legs, from the legs to
the feet.
For example: Above we have indicated a double menace made by the head.
One might transfer this menace to the hand and say: "You will have a
quarrel to settle with me!"
Each agent has its role, and this is why they transmit their movements.
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