"What remains? The language remains...."

Reflections on language, identity and anthropology

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Nobody seems to ask the question what words actually are and exactly their relationship to the human nervous system.

--William Burroughs

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"The rules break like a thermometer,

quicksilver spills across the charted systems,

we're out in a country that has no language

no laws, we're chasing the raven and the wren

through gorges unexplored since dawn

whatever we do together is pure invention

the maps they gave us were out of date

by years..."

-Adrienne Rich

"Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can

only be cut out."

-Gloria Anzaldúa

"....

Don't keep all the pieces of the puzzle

or the doll's tiny shoes in pairs, don't worry

who uses whose toothbrush or if anything

matches, at all.

Except one word to another. Or a thought.

..."

-Louise Erdrich

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