cimorene: cartoony drawing of a woman's head in profile giving dubious side-eye (calligraphy)
Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2019-02-16 11:46 am
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry
  • Current Mood: grotesquerie
  • Current Location: existential isolation, raising the specter of pre-linguistic thought
  • Current Music: communication, writing, language
Entry tags:

imprisoned by the dictionary

"We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.”


—Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry
(0 comments)

Post a comment in response:

If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

If you are unable to use this captcha for any reason, please contact us by email at support@dreamwidth.org

 
Links will be displayed as unclickable URLs to help prevent spam.