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Thread poster: Nora Escoms
Nora Escoms
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Argentina
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Feb 15, 2003

Hi, everybody. I received this quotation in today\'s World Wide Words newsletter:



\"Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider

magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.\"

David Lehman; quoted in the \"Cassell Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations\" (1996)]



Isn\'t it a wonderful com... See more
Hi, everybody. I received this quotation in today\'s World Wide Words newsletter:



\"Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider

magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.\"

David Lehman; quoted in the \"Cassell Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations\" (1996)]



Isn\'t it a wonderful comparison?

A great weekend to all of you!

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Arthur Borges
Arthur Borges
China
Local time: 22:33
English
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Nora, I like it ahelluvalot. Feb 16, 2003

There\'s a quantum biology out by Francesco Varela that is an outrageous improvement on dear but dusty Darwin - I dream of quantum grammar.



Words do have souls of their own, though. I keep thinking of words like \"papillon\", which in French is both \"butterfly\" and \"bow tie\". So this soul is a soul of shape or form.
 


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