ursula: Sheep knitting, from the Alice books (sheep)
Ursula ([personal profile] ursula) wrote2005-01-24 09:25 am

for [personal profile] glowing_fish

For a while I had a little gallery of bizarre correspondence posted outside my dorm room. The messages from [livejournal.com profile] glowing_fish were the strangest; they were also the least marred by ulterior motives.

I read an essay once on nonsense as an attempt to control the reader's construction of meaning. [livejournal.com profile] glowing_fish at his best applies that theory to ordinary interaction: when he (like Humpty-Dumpty) uses a word, it means just what he chooses it to mean.