How Language Fails Us
I’ve been thinking, lately, how language fails us. Particularly we who are preoccupied with the thrust of the marvelous, we who long to remake ourselves and our worlds…as well to make “our worlds within words “ as my friend Stanislas once said. The language we have now…too often it underscores our ineptitude: we are rife with the inability to convey the palimpsest of perceptions, emotions, intuitions, whose absence have made us—ever more corrosively—the superficial, walking-