notebk scrap from august04

to understand the body biologically, is to understand the body physically, and in relief, understand the world non-physically that much more.

words are how we understand things complexly—sight, sound, touch, taste, are complex understandings, but all animals have them, and any of these senses are not active and alive in themselves, in so much as they have a hard time describing one other of these senses; whereas words and verbal speech, have the most innate ability to evoke all of sight sound touch taste because once they enter one other being’s mind, they become that other being’s own possession, free to transcribe into various rich imagery. Conversation and writing can touch us like none other, in a way elevated and intimate beyond all else.