When I write, I say words in my mind. I’m pretty sure I can type words as fast as I can think them. Sometimes it seems I’ve typed them even faster than that!
I wash and slice an organic Ambrosia apple for breakfast. It’s pretty, though it won’t be tree-sweet. I notice how it has so much yellow mixed with the red. I think, I ought to paint one of these.
On the speakers, improbable flurries of notes issue from Dexter Gordon’s horn. How do jazz artists do that — paint the air with neon sound?
Wait, he’s blowing statements out his instrument the way I blow them out my keyboard! The dexterity’s so internalized, no conscious effort intervenes.
Sweet. We have stuff in common, Dexter and me. He was a saxophonist. I’m a typist.
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Do we think words first and then type them; do words just get written down thoughtlessly without mind entering into it; or do we think them and write them simultaneously? Language, words, peculiar stuff. Does the world exist without words? Or is it words that brings existence into being? Ha, ha!
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You reflect the essence of wisdom here, Peter, which is by questioning not answering! 🙂 I swear with words and by words and on words. I’ve learned recently that Jerome’s translation “In the beginning was the word…” was amended by Erasmus to “In the beginning was the conversation…” It hinges on interpretation of the Greek word “logos,” and apparently many classicists think Erasmus got it right.
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Yes, Seamus, much hinges on our understanding of that word “logos”! I tend to side with Max Muller when he says that it is about speech as well as reason. I think the philosophers have made things difficult, by insisting that it means rational discourse rather than just plain old chat. And it gets worse since the priestly classes wanted us to believe that the creator bestowed logos upon man alone. I can’t hold with that since I’ve seen a great deal more intelligence amongst species other than man. Don’t they communicate with each other? Fascinating subject. Too vast and complex to go into here though!
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Seamus?
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Ha, ha! Sorry, I was talking to an Irish “Jim” (Seamus is the Irish version of Jim / James!)
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Irish for James! Outstanding. I didn’t know that about Seamus. I insist you call me that now! ha-ha. I’ll wear it proudly.
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You’re kidding (codding) me, Jim! I apologise. So sorry Jim. I had been talking with a Seamus from Donegal. I was probably still thinking about our conversation. Incidentally, there is no Irish equivalent for Jim; there’s Seamus for James; Seamie for Jimmie; but it’s Jim for Jim! Although there’s also Shay, but I don’t know what that is in English. Seamus BTW should have a grave accent over the letter e. But my keyboard is not rigged up for Irish.
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