inarticulable knowledge
A relationship, notably, is not an algorithm. It is a gestalt. Far be it from me to say that I’ve figured out what relationships really are or really mean, but I know there is an intangible force formed between the centres of people that sits beyond the limits of interpretation, that is larger than itself and both of you, that cannot be explained s... See more
Rayne Fisher-Quann • against narrative
somehow failed to recognize that all these feelings were subtle concepts as well. They were just subtle thoughts, present in narrative, in the inner monolog or dialog.
Kat Adamson • Sailor Bob
What was that thing we had learned in our rhetoric class, about Derrida’s “deferral of meaning” and how words are merely signs that can never fully summon what they mean? Yet words are all we have, simultaneously bringing us closer, casting us farther away.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Wittgenstein said that “you cannot enter worlds for which you do not have the language.” Jenny Odell, in How to Do Nothing, discusses how learning the language of birders helped her distinguish better between different birds. One of the most pleasurable parts of learning a new domain for me is developing the language that accompanies the developmen... See more
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
Joe Fassler • 1 highlight
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