the privilege of being inflexible, permanent, unalterable,
firm in their vocation of expressing an idea,
one single idea, with certainty,
with no paths that could lead to misunderstanding
nor adjustments, nor double meaning.
the essential value of the word upside down.
Made the word ambivalent,
sometimes irascible, cheerful, malevolent, sombre,
the contradictory entity,
contradictory and antonymic in itself.
should be rigorously reserved
to sing the harmony of a species,
a common feeling about things
and the hope that these end up
in the communion of one single sadness.
I like the idea of using words as symbols for abstract concepts. That these concepts should mean something solid - without qualification - is an interesting thought. It is idealism but that's okay. It is calming to imagine a world where, freedom, kindness and love were "permanent, unalterable".
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