words

what do you read, my lord?

words, words, words

(hamlet, act II scene ii)

one of the things i’ll be posting about on this blog is words. i have always liked words – they make me smile. just think of the word wombat or bollocks, ha ha! some words just capture what they describe so well, like slug or scratch, and some express amazing ideas, like epiphany. much of the power lies in the concept or the idea, of course, but the word also has its own power (some argue that the power actually lies in the word itself!).