The books of the Italian collective Wu Ming are historical soap operas that carry an extratextual awareness of their dependence on the past. Language is always on loan from others, and it is always to others that our additions to it return.
Language is both the medium through which humans strive to surpass their situation and a lattice binding us to everyone else. The beautiful locutions of the lexical witch doctor can't be separated from the authority of the audience - which can accept or reject them. LANGUAGE IS ONE OF THE FIRST FORMS of acquiescence in human life, a system that merges invention with history.
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