Writing is rather the act of listening carefully. If you listen well enough, the words present themselves like a mist rising from the forest floor. They do not need your assistance; they need your silence. If you don’t scare them off, they come of their own accord like the little creatures in the forest that begin to scurry from their cover.

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3 responses to “The Word”

  1. Susan Rogers Avatar
    Susan Rogers

    Ah, Kevin the intrepid, wading dauntlessly into the subject of The Word. Confucius disagreed. The word comes to exist, he argued, once the original thing (the real mccoy) ceased to exist. But that’s beside the point, because the way you tell us about your feelings about words is so poetic and charming that you neatly clap a hand over the mouth of five millenia of philosophy. So just keep us blissfully unaware of all that other stuff by delighting us with your Epiphanies, some little and others huge.

  2. GRACIELA PASQUINELLI Avatar
    GRACIELA PASQUINELLI

    Cuando yo era pequeña, ví un sketch de Jerry Lewis, que representaba a Adán en el paraíso, y se encontraba con una Eva que le ponía nombre a todo. Luego supe que estaba inspirado en el Diario de Adán y Eva de Mark Twain. Tu epifanía me llevó a ese recuerdo, y la belleza de las palabras que nombran cada cosa que conocemos, y aunque nos parezcan de manera caprichosa, tienen siempre un por qué. No sé cómo harán las nuevas generaciones para pensar, porque parece que ahora forman las ideas a través de imágenes, más que palabras… me quedo con nuestro universo escrito y hablado, querido Kevin…