“Le Mot Juste”

The “right” word is not the one that names the thing but the word that gives the effect of the thing.

Experience is play, and meaning is re-play and re-cognition. Far from being normal, successful communication is a rarity. It requires not only repetition of a common language, but also demands participation of both author and audience in the process of remaking from their old components a pattern that only the author may have perceived. Communicating the new is a miracle.