Anushka Saha
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Anushka Saha
We 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... See more
But does illegibility, incomprehension not create in us the desire to enter the world? Why must otherness scare us?
We two- legged have long been creatures of language, of course, but verbal language lived f irst in the shaped breath of utterance, it laughed and stuttered on the tongue long before it lay down on the page, and longer still before it arrayed itself in rows across the glowing screen.”5 Language used to be more like music, perhaps, spoken and heard
... See moreI 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.
To write
... See moreWe deserve then to be tripped by molehills. We are infinitely abject, shuffling past with our eyes shut.
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
The songs prove that we were here. They are made of air—and yet we walk on them. Or better yet, as was my case that night in August 2005, it became a little boat the weatherman and I rode on. We are, I hope, somewhere both riding still.
Ocean Vuong
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