josh blog

Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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25 Jan '13 12:20:06 AM

If my words, too, are people, then wouldn't they also just be gatherings I've been at?

25 Jan '13 12:17:40 AM

'How To Do Things With Words': along with them, working together; not as if they are our instruments.

… which leaves open the possibility that we are theirs.

25 Jan '13 12:14:47 AM

If words are people, then what are we? —Maybe if we stay quiet we'll find out.

25 Jan '13 12:09:51 AM

Love needs neither to exchange nor not to exchange words.

24 Jan '13 11:58:33 PM

We take it as obvious that people are people.

24 Jan '13 11:57:05 PM

'Yeah we hooked up but it was just that one time.'

24 Jan '13 11:49:16 PM

Words on whose behalf we pressure 'we' pressures other words to stay in line.

24 Jan '13 11:45:05 PM

(You two, you three, yall…)

24 Jan '13 11:44:13 PM

'I didn't realize you two knew each other.'