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I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like read more
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.
Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!
Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
The language of truth is simple.
The language of truth is simple.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Language is memory and metaphor.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
