Thursday, August 30, 2012
It is a wonderful gift.
"Words that come out of history are complicated; they are cluttered
with etymology and connotation. And that slows us down when we try to
understand them.... But words that make up their histories as they come
into existence leap at us unchaperoned. First they are in our leader's
mouth, then they are in ours. It is a wonderful gift. We can hum along
with the words passing through us; we can clap, we can jump. And as we
respond to the music we make, we will feel ourselves coming into being.
We will be wrong, but we will believe that we know at last who we are."
Jonathan Morse, Word by Word: The Language of Memory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press) 1990: 2.
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