when björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw… oh how right she was
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Words are an attempt to condense the electricity of one mind into the shared/stagnant/dead medium of language, so that another mind can hold it and reenact the electricity that created it.
intense effort to express and connect is inherently limited by the boundaries of language itself, highlighting its insufficiency.