Holy River of Flows: Words and Discourse in a Declarative Age
The Emerald
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Words have started arriving for my 13 month old son. He doesn't make the words, and neither do we. We just pass them on, and our parents pass them on to us. For my baby boy, they're visceral. They're a big deal. You can watch the air around his head just before a word arrives - you can see something tingling there. If you listen closely within yourself, you can feel a word as it passes your heart. The brain does not make the word. Thebrain constructs its architecture around the word. A word is not something that is simply manufactured. It's more like an agreement, an agreement between the vessel and the water, one could
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