I claimed that when you hear a "word", what comes into your "mind" is not a "real intrinsic meaning" shafted down in a bolt from Plato or Zeus
> what comes into your head are solely bits > >> of memory retrieved and mosaicked by your racy brain as it frisks the > >> familiar sound, and creates your me-meaning. > Here are a few more lines in support of that assertion, and citing some of the perils BREN As for meanings, have some fun: Look up 'run' in Webster's Third some time. Or 'set'. Ess-ee-tee. You'll find over a hundred sub-entries for each. Wow! So many meanings for such short words! No. Those aren't inherent meanings; they're only attempts to describe various notions people might have in mind as they make the noise or hear the sound. KIT Who gives a shit about all this!? BREN Hey -- I predicted you wouldn't. But ideally you would, because the fact is you need it. All sound-memories are psychoactive, hallucinatory. You need to develop allergies to faulty sounds. Like that deluding figment 'IS'. "What IS a miracle? What IS a sin? What IS art?" The very form of the question gulls the mind into accepting the thing exists in the first place. KIT -- Not, not --... Well... No -- go on. Go on. BREN Think of so-called "words" as like bacteria. Some helpful, some harmful. If you don't have -- up here -- an immune system to attack bad sounds, you're in for trouble. "Who ARE you?" Poisonously bad form, that. Spit it out. J'you know that 'to gull' and 'to swallow' were once synonyms?
