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...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Real

"From the ancient times...literature has been concerned to represent something. What? I will put it more crudely: the real. The real is not representable, and it is because men ceaselessly try to represent it by words that there is a history of literature"
-Roland Barthes
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