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Arthur Borges — Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:14:00 +0000

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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.

Words and electrons

Nora Escoms — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:13:00 +0000

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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?

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