What is a letter?
What is a word?
Such strange things, these symbols
That men hold high with meaning.
How can these marks on paper
Determine the fate of nations?
How can the order of letters change all meaning?
How can "war" become "raw"?
Are they related at all?
Does their arrangement truly
Determine their identity?
Does meaning arise only from order?
Such a riddle are words.
Masterpieces endure through history
As black scribbles in books.
Yet for the uneducated man
Those works are as meaningless as a stain.
What are these paradoxes of order and chaos?
Does a word become a word
When it is spoken or when it is written?
Do letters arise from the mouth?
Are words only born on paper?
What are these ciphers
These enigmas of the ages?
What is a letter?
What is a word?
I like this.. very clever, insightful. Definitely makes you think. It's from that exercise we did in class on insight, right?
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