unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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unexplainable
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr
The cure for over-summary, I think, is something akin to cultivation. States and maturity need good growing conditions and time. The wonder we should concern ourselves with: What else has been hidden by summary? What thoughts must we resist abridging? Those giant sequoias echo a reminder to ask ourselves, what are the unseen things today that could... See more
simonsarris.substack.com • Long Distance Thinking
"We teachers - perhaps all human beings - are in the grip of an astonishing delusion. We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working model of something, constructed in our minds out of long experience and familiarity, and by turning that model into a string of words, transplant it whole into the mind of someone else. Perhaps once in a
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I like thinking about what comes after all the thinking. When we’re done explaining, categorizing, and solving everything that’s explainable, categorizable, and solvable, what’s left? The best things? The most important ones? This reminds me of Nietzsche’s idea that capturing something in language is the end of our wonder, rather than the beginning... See more
via haley nahman, beyond explanation
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
-Jack Kerouac
“The next _____”
“[existing thing] (eg Uber) for x”
Almost always wrong and uninteresting
Build something that can’t be easily analogized
build something you can't easily put into words
David Lynch on the limitations of language:
“Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, because you’ve got time and sequen... See more