Oscar Wilde

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

– Oscar Wilde –

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Words tend to last a big longer than things, but eventually they fade too, along with the pictures they once evoked. Entire categories of objects disappear – flowerpots, for example, or cigarette filters, or rubber bands – and for a time you will be able to recognize those words, even if you cannot recall what they mean. But then, little by little, the words become only sounds, a random collection of glottals and fricatives, a storm of whirling phonemes, and finally the whole thing just collapses into gibberish.

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