unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
sari and
unexplainable
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
“words do not matter, because meaning is often felt, not said.”
Why are we drawn to cheap, re-usable, and safe language? The pressure to use modular Swedish furniture is similar to the pressure online writers face. We want quick results, we cushion our words, and we crave to be accepted.
IKEA Words: How Not to Furnish Your Digital Home
“You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say. We hope that we have something here... We’ve been working quite hard at it. We hope you can dig it.
To describe it any further would be difficult without sounding like bullshit.”
- Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 1
I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
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“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr
Analogies are a poverty of language
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires