Friday, May 13, 2022

Linguistic contours

But remember that words are signals, counters.
        They are not immortal.
And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand -
    it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour
        which no longer matches the landscape of... fact.

                                                    Brian Friel, Translations

 

 

 

 

 

at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
  • Familiar regrets
    In 2012, Australian caregiver Bronnie Ware wrote a book about her experiences in palliative care. There were five regrets that dying people ...
  • Happiness
    Happiness is holding someone in your arms                 and knowing you hold the whole world.                                    Orhan Pa...
  • A big step toward justice
    No one meaningful Civil Rights Bill — no bill with effective enforcement teeth in it—had been passed since 1875. Not since Reconstruction. S...