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...

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Invisible

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible" 
— Vladimir Nabokov
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