Think
Can you think of something bigger than the biggest thing describable, and if you think so, have I not already described it here? How can something refer to nothing? Who will win the World Cup? These and other questions answered, or ignored, herein.
”...to speak is to fight, in the sense of playing, and speech acts fall within the domain of a general agonistics. This does not necessarily mean that one plays in order to win. A move can be made for the sheer pleasure of its invention: what else is involved in that labor of language harassment undertaken by popular speech and by literature? Great joy is had in the endless invention of turns of phrase, of words and meanings, the process behind the evolution of language on the level of parole. But undoubtedly even this pleasure depends on a feeling of success won at the expense of an adversary – at least one adversary, and a formidable one: the accepted language, or connotation”
(Jean-François Lyotard, 1979, The Postmodern Condition, Manchester University Press, 1984)
Need to invent a violent word to rupture your mind, a million quiet words to crawl your skin like an insect, a word like a lever to open your mouth and a million more like liquid to fill it; some to trawl your back, settle in your footprints and float in your eyes like dust; all of these words blocking your way, all of these words falling out of the back of my head as I run ahead of you, falling like jagged clouds drifting across the dreamscape sky we share sleeping: we are skin to skin in a small dark room buried, and tiny demons are knocking door by door to hunt us down; the sun is swinging like a broken lightbulb dangling on a wire, like a line off a grid in a man’s back pocket, a man walking home from work to a house, to a small dark room where a boy is at the same time sleeping beside you and sitting up to write Need to invent a violent word…