Anushka Saha
@cloudyjazzcafe
Anushka Saha
I think a lot of people are dismissive of their best thoughts. They can’t put their observations on paper because they’ve already censored them in their mind.
Paul Gauguin • writing as autonomy
I think a lot of people are dismissive of their best thoughts. They can’t put their observations on paper because they’ve already censored them in their mind. They don’t have confidence that what they see is real, because to believe that it’s real requires them to believe that their understanding of the world is as valid as anyone else’s.
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... See moreWe all play a bit of a game when in love, don’t we? On the one hand, there is the genius of raw emotion; on the other, costumes drying on the clothesline. - Anne Carson, ‘Missing Sheep’
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
But does illegibility, incomprehension not create in us the desire to enter the world? Why must otherness scare us?
The experience of listening to a language you don't comprehend.
The desire to put distance between yourself and the comprehensible world, to voluntarily suspend understanding and therefore escape the limits of language into an array of new sounds, to not be understood but felt.
On music in a foreign language