What a concatenation of misbegotten degradation.

Words are tokens of agreement. They have definitions--but the definitions evolve over time.

If you don't know why a word means what it does, where it came from, it's very adventurous to presume to impose arbitrary new meanings on it. It happens all right, but usually it's a fizzle.

IF you don't honor the agreements that are built up in a word, you are cutting yourself off from richness of thought and experience, and choosing a sad, merely existential hole. Humpty was, in short, a bad egg, a cheap yolk, a self-abusing solipsist, a cartoon of sad curmudgeonly decrepitude.


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