13,750 years ago: “In the beginning is the word.” – Word-masters
2,500 years ago: “Old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato
124 years ago: “All I know is what I have words for.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
74 years ago: “Waiting for Godot.” – Samuel Beckett
55 years ago: “Words are all we have.” – Samuel Beckett
When Whoopi said it: “Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.” – Whoopi Goldberg
3 years ago: “Everything we have a word for is a word.” – Beat Schindler
Mistaking what is, for absurd, is as normal today as it’s been since the beginning of words.
Though things have changed.
13,750 years ago, when words were new, the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice.
There wasn’t war yet.
Nor was there peace.
Because during the first 99.9997% of Earth-Time (4.65 billion years) our planet had been wordless.
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