An amalgamation of quotes and ideas on the nature of language
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...
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Qualities
Words give glass quality to glass, blood to blood and life to life itself
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