“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.”
J.M. Coetzee (1940) South African writer
“Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”
"Notes on an Elizabethan Play"
The Common Reader (1925)
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