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Dead Words

Words don't have fixed ordained meanings. Dictionaries are a fluent history of collective verbal habits. Words mean what we, the community of word users, agree they mean. They are fluid like the consciousness that gives them birth. They are a catalyst, but there is no meaning in the words themselves. They are symbols, forms, and obscure mysteries.  They are in the world of dead things and only take on meaning in a moment of illumination in the mind and heart of the reader and speaker.

"And these… these phrases you keep speaking in. They don't make any sense."
 
"Ah, you seek meaning?"
 
"Yes."
 
"Then listen to the music, not the song."
 
            Kosh and Talia, "Winters in Babylon 5"