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...

Friday, June 25, 2010

Reality of Earth

Yes, happily language is a thing; it is a written thing, a bit of
bark, a sliver of rock, a fragment of clay in which the reality of the
earth continues to exist

Maurice Blanchot

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