if anything in life floors me every time...

Dec 17, 2005 09:11

Mmmmmm...all books I have ever read cower in the light of this text:

"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words!

A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer.

(This is my favorite) Till THAT WORD can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we THINK we mean?

(and now the kicker!) How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"

~C.S. Lewis
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