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This is something that's interested me for some time. Take the phrase, "I cried myself to sleep."
As a phrase, it's a bit evocative. It connotes sadness, and in the empathetic individual, might give rise to a certain amount of actual emotion.
But how does it compare to reality? How do those five words really compare to the hot wash of emotion, the choked-up throat, the burning intensity of eyes filling with tears and splashing, hot and unbidden down the cheeks? Where is the pungent, cathartic unbottling of emotion which caused this event in the first place? How does it describe the slow descent into restless, saddened slumber, or awaking to a bleary hopelessness in the black of night? Even this entire paragraph only captures a shadow of the real event.
For all that we have an evocative and flexible language, we rarely actually make use of it. When we do, it really only presents a thin mockery of the actual emotions and events described. How much better would it be (and, also, how much worse) if the full import of emotions and feelings could be described?
(Can you tell I've been reading overwrought classic novels again? Really enjoying Jane Eyre.)
Posted at 14:04 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater