someone says something-someone else records
a third party stores-others follow-simple as air or water
Bibles,Koran,Meditations,Dead Sea Scrolls-
none written by original creators
many hundreds of years afterwards
censored,edited,banned,cast as heresy
emerging in a Frankenstein format
like Arthur Waley's version of Chinese poetry
Robert Bly's Rumi-and any Russian poet translated
into any non-Slavic alphabet.We are always at least one degree removed
from Original Source-largely oral,apocryphal,improvised
made for immediate associates-rarely with linguistic flexibility
sufficient to forestall divergent interpretations/Crusades/factions/Jihads
People die for others' words.When they only want to live via them.
Next Inquisition or witch hunt-carry a larger caliber
vocabulary.
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