9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for July 01, 2012
Transcript:
Thorax: It is always best to think first in images. Words doom everything we conceive to the trammels and intransigence of language. thorax: At their best, words are unwieldy set of tools locked in a mammoth struggle to codify and communicate the finest of our imaginings...at their worst, they collude in a stale lockstep of vapid platitudes perpetually in the employ of idiots and political speech writers. Thorax: When we enjoy a brief victory over the surly shackles of words, the result it poetry. Boy: Kewl. thorax: Dude.