Man of Letters

[monkeyparts]

"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting that the text.  The world is one of these books." - George Santayana
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"'Lordinges,' quoth he, 'now herkneth for the beste,
But tak it nought, I prey yow, in desdeyn.
This is the poynt, to speken short and pleyn:
That ech of yow, to

Comments

[no_moonshine_no]

There's nothing inherently meaningful about a letter, a word, a sentence. Only our subjective experience can define it as anything other than yet another shape in our field of view. It's an interesting thing though, language, for it seems to be a fundamental bridge between the internal seclusion of our thoughts and the physical world. However, in the absence of language is there thought at all? Does the structure of such a rational construct itself beget the life within it? Perhaps it merely expands the boundries within to allow for growth. Studies of feral children who lacked language exposure during their formative years are permanently crippled cognitively, and have difficulty understanding many concepts including complex human emotions. Is this seeming lack of subtlety of emotion in the language-impaired an indicator that without the means to express, the raw emotion does not even occur? Of course, the fundamental problem is we can't see what's going on in anyone else's head without that language. So, functionally, if they have no

[monkeyparts]

- You watched Carrie's video too, huh