FIST.

August 4, 2003 by 3 Comments

“Perhaps the most marked trend in paranoia is that towards a complete seizing of the world through words, as though language were a fist and the world lay in it….”
—Elias Canetti

(Via alembic.)

Comments

  1. John Cowan says:
    October 26, 2015 at 10:58 am

    Attention must be paid! Attention must be paid!

  2. languagehat says:
    October 26, 2015 at 12:16 pm

    (he said, shaking his fist)

  3. John Cowan says:
    October 26, 2015 at 12:39 pm

    (he said, fisting)

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