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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2019-02-16 11:46 am
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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