Try the Words About Words Index . The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly- because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them. The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. Italo Calvino Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. . . .
Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. I can't say it myself. Beatrix Campbell, Unofficial Secrets A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. Eddie Cantor Words fascinate me.