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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
i think the 'outerspace' is slightly more interesting, though maybe not quite as interesting to talk about since you just end up babbling.
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I guess thats why we occupy different disciplines. Poets and orators never cease to impress me with how the language can be crafted to deliver a point as sharp as a needle and as heavy as cannon fire.
Words have moved nations, wiped out races, healed ancient wounds, and prevented nuclear holocaust.
As Churchill once said (paraphrase) "you can deprive a man of his kingdom, his army, weapons, his friends, and his dignity, but if he can command language he's still as formiddable and as dangerous as before" (almost none of that carried over)