Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
Siri Hustvedt
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
reading mind language brain
imagination memory language words
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.
language
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
language sickness illness
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