Word rules

In the beginning is the word.
- In the beginning of everything you have a word for is the word.
- In the beginning of everything you know is the word.
A word by any other word is a word.
Everything you have a word for is a word.
Everything you know is a word.
In both of these stories, the story of you and the story of evolution, there is a time Before Words and a time After Words.
A word couldn’t be anything else if it tried.
Words couldn’t be anything else if they tried.
A word does not matter.
Words do not matter.
Words don’t do anything.
For words to anything takes a word-user.
Words are how word-users aim at what they’re looking for.
Words are a prison.
- But even a prison is a home when you have the key.
Words are the limits of your world.
To see, you must forget the word of what you’re looking at.
A word is never another.
To say a word is a word is meaningless.
To say of two words they are identical is nonsense.
To say of one word it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.
What a word is, a sentence cannot say.
Words sit on our noses, as it were, as glasses, and everything we look at, we see through them.
Call words a dream, it doesn’t change anything.

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