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Excerpts:
- WHAT ARE THE CHANCES that the ideas that we've inherited about who and what we are, are correct?
- THIS IS A BOOK, THAT IS A HAIRSTYLE, they are psychopathic killers and/or warmongering capitalists bent on terror and carnage, we are decent normal people who are acting only in self-defense.
- IF OUR MENTAL MAPS OF WHO and what, of how and why we are are drawn for us in the words that we learn as children, might the outlines of our errors lurk in the meanings that we map with the words that we use?
- WHY ARE WE NOT SHOCKED into silence by the audacity of the whole idea of using words, in the first place? How does it happen that we perform this miracle without even blinking, much less reveling in amazement at the feat?
- IF THIS WORLD OF OURS IS ROUND, and if space itself is curved, then maybe the latitudes and longitudes of language bend around some as yet undiscovered dimensions, too.
- WHATEVER MEANING WE MIGHT GLEAN comes from words that we've already encountered, in an order that we haven't.
- IF WE REALLY UNDERSTOOD the results of whatever it is that tempts us to try using language in the first place, if we understood the things that we actually say, it might help us understand how we wind up saying them. Maybe we could reverse engineer the process by analyzing its products.
- A WILD BEAR LIKES TO HIDE where she's hard to find, though. It takes patience to learn her ways. Patience, an inquistive, critical mind, imagination, and attention to detail.
- THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN THIS STUDY may be fruitfully applied to the analysis of many languages, be they spoken, telepathed, or secreted, among the inhabited worlds of the Orion Arm.
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