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Apr 11, 2008 13:09 # 45704

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Words, a thousand words and more

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I've been looking up things on the net. Something that can end up getting one caught up in chasing something for days.
I heard about this book, only one in existance, the vonynich manuscript, so I typed in the word and found lots and lots of information about it.
I started bookmarking everything. I don't know if I will be able to wade through everything, it is truely like a sea of information. I wonder what drowning in words would look like.
Maybe something like this:

There I was, minding my own business, just walking along and something hit me on the head. It bounced off just as I got hit by another thing, and yet another.
I looked down as it started to rain things, and discovered they weren't things, but words.
They started falling faster and faster. First by the hundreds then more.
All the words I knew and could think of and ones I'd never heard.
The wind started to blow and pretty soon I couldn't see anything.
I was word blind by now. Groping around hoping to find my way to some place safe, I was stumbling over words.
If I coulda just kept my balance I think I would have been ok, but I couldn't, so I went down and thoes words just kept comming.
Painful ones and ones that induced laughter, which isn't a good idea because then they start getting in your mouth and you have to spit them out because they like it in there, and will start dragging other words in there with them.

After awhile, I stopped struggling. I lost conciousness.
The next thing I remember is someone talking about the words and how they were everywhere, and I was just another victim of word drowning.
There were words embedded in my skin, my hair and even some in my eyes.

:) Seems words could be dangerous, and often are. Sometimes it would or could seem that words over take everything...after all we are a very wordy species.
Ah boy, I'm thinking literally here. Not symbolic, but literally. It would be strange to see if when a person said somthing what came out of their mouth was a literal thing instead of just a word or series of words.
Visualize it. A traffic jam, curiousity killing a cat, it's raining cats and dogs, going off the deep end. That one in particular could come with the question, what end are you going off of?
Biting off more than you can chew could be a good one.
How about making a point. I don't think I want to be close enough when someone makes one of thoes, I might get poked!

I wonder what elbow grease actually looks like. And then there are thoes lovely oximorons. They would be fun to see and not just hear about.
Goverment intelligence is the first one that comes to mind.
I know there are others, I just can't think of any at the moment.
I think I'm going to have to illustrate some of this for BPC.

You are the best immatation of you that exists


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