Spirits & Tongues

Posts:

• mise en place

  January 15, 2023

  For all of my life, my relationship with food has been important and profound. I’m not just saying that food does its normal thing of keeping my human body alive, although that is a pretty miraculous component of the relationship.

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• crepuscular

  January 15, 2023

  Occasionally, a sequence of syllables pops into my brain that seems vaguely word-like. I take the syllables and roll them around in my head a bit, hypothesizing a few meanings for this jumble of sounds. I might end up with a quasi-understanding of a maybe-word. This half-knowledge feels like a shadow or a ghost – so insubstantial that I’m not sure if I dreamed this word and its meaning or if, in fact, I actually do know something about an actual, concrete piece of language.

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