III. Object of Linguistics
Language can’t stand the way we eat. Language hesitates for a second at the cliff’s edge, turns with a parody of sad eyes and says something that sounds like “thumpwhup.” The wind is heavy and language is on the phone trying to smell the thoughts of bankers. Language is the opposite of labor or labor is the opposite of emails from lonely singles in unknown languages. Language will cease to remain under the seedy alignment of cough syrup and astrology. Language is yelling. It hurts. Nothing is known.
IV. Linguistics of Language and Linguistics of Speaking
Language looks around and says, “Oh, my leg is broken.” Language smoked all the bananadine. Arriving home, it still has to come up with dinner. Language is an imperial power. Language is an emperor. Language is the emperor’s suit, animate on the balcony. Language wrote a book called “Moralia” that scandalized the neighbors. Language is a neighbor a Hennessey-infused whipped cream a will to endure less. Language omits its complex network of investment concerns. Language learns to follow the revival. When there is no room language walks into the center of the room.
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The first six sections of this are revisions of pieces I wrote for a collaborative project that was never finished. The title and section headings are taken from “Course in General Linguistics” by Ferdinand de Saussure.
