“Language most shows the man; speak that I may see thee,” wrote Ben Jonson in a prose collection published shortly before his death. “Characters hide their meanings from others (and occasionally from themselves), feign indifference when they feel love, say only part of what they mean, pursue their designs under the unsuspecting eyes of those they interact with. Even silence — the choice not to speak — plays an important role in conveying contextual meaning.”
J. Ellen Gainor
I mainly post these things because of my own nerdiness, but also to archive ideas in the filing cabinet of my mind.
