Friday, January 18, 2008

Cicerone´s Journeys: Eighteen

Cicerone thinks about alphabets, languages, accents and dialects, he thinks about communication and confusion. He thinks about how to speak, or how to speak in the absence of grammar, for example. He thinks about problems that can arise if, for example, one were to try to speak the language of birds, to explain the alphabet of clouds and sunsets. He sits at a table. He is sitting in a room. He looks at a television and he thinks; this is a television. He writes a list that begins;
the grammar of stones
the grammar of bridges
the grammar of waterfalls
the grammar of chimneys
the grammar of windows
the grammar of locks
the grammar of postboxes

the list continues.

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