William H. Gass Quote

I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.


Conversations with William H. Gass (ed. 2003)


I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a...

I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a...

I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a...

I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a...