Monday, August 5, 2013

from "Verbivore," Christine Brooke-Rose

So the evening passed in linguistic pleasantries. Not mega-diodic but it had to be so. Will loss of words lead to savagery? I asked him. Don’t get philosophical, Zab, words aren’t being lost, we’re still talking. Oh, you know what I mean, words as passive intake. What is the half-life of words, Jip?