Evidence » course: letters, signs and symbols

They become images when written down,
but images of words repeated in the mind
and not of the image of the thing itself."

“Exterminate all rational thought --
That is the conclusion I have come to.”

“You don't have to have words to have ideas, but you have to have words to have books. Now animals clearly have ideas, concepts and dreams, but they don't have words. They talk, but they don't write. They don't have a concept of symbolization is what it amounts to. The essence of language, what distinguishes man from the chimp. They can't see that. An animal can't read a map. Chimpanzees have some concept of symbols. The just don't have the mechanisms to produce words.”

“A writer doesn't own words any more than a painter owns his colors.”

“My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the space age.”

W.S. Burroughs

- alina

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