Words are saturated with time. We are saturated with words for we are temporal beings. Language is not merely a system of semiotics, it doesn't merely represent the world. Rather it constructs it, performs it, creates it and destroys it. It morphs aspects of our reality and forces them to filter through its phonetic and conceptual prisms. If language performs, then the dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos. Welcome to the world of language, the reality in which we live...

Saturday, April 10, 2010

God's Utterances

"The book of nature is written in the language of math, whose symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word; without which one is a wanderer in vain through a dark labyrinth."
— Galileo Galilei


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