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Taylan: Yeah, everybody has walls so everyone's got wall builders. They're creatures who build and break down our barriers, our boundaries. A couple is two people but they have just one wall. A group of five close friends has a wall, too.

Me: Do babies have walls?

Taylan: I dunno.

Me: Babies don't have walls.

“The connection was bad so we practically had to shout, which was not very conductive to communicating delicate shades of feeling. It was like talking on a windswept hill through upturned collars.

. . .

“I lay back on the hotel bed, phone receiver hand, and looked at the ceiling. I could be lying on the ocean floor counting fish, I thought. How many would I have to count before I could say I was done?

. . .

“I didn’t get the picture, but then again, there are lots of things I don't know anything about. Age certainly hasn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

. . .

Hi:

You are like a rain drop from the sky. Landing where you be, bringing joy and laughter.  May the warm breeze always be at your back. Out to sea you go. More places to see and explore. Lucky you to live a full life.

Keep good notes so you can share your journey with those who love you and those who would like to repeat a few of your foot prints.

Your message to Jean was so eloquent. What a great memory. Like talking leaves from the past. I warm to the heart reading your travels. Keep the book going though we know not the number of chapters.

“And one reason why he says that Shakespeare can be confusing is often, Shakespeare behaved not so much as a writer but more like a chemist, combining elements. He’s taking words and he’s shoving them together, smashing them together if you will. 

Look what he did just by adding a little prefix “un.” There’s so many words that we’re now familiar with—unnerved.  You know, we all know what that means but nobody had heard of unnerved, unaware, uncomfortable. ROBERT KRULWICH: He made up uncomfortable?JAMES SHAPIRO: He was the first to use that word… ROBERT KRULWICH: On a stage. JAMES SHAPIRO: Right. 

Unearthly, unhand, undress, uneducated, ungoverned, unmitigated, unwillingness unpublished, something that’s near and dear to my heart. Unsolicited, unswayed, unclogged, unappeased, unchanging, unreal. ROBERT KRULWICH: He made up unreal? JAMES SHAPIRO: He was the first to use it in print or on stage. He’s taking words that ordinarily are not stuck together; things like mad cap, ladybird. Shoving them together, eye drops, to achieve a kind of atomic power.  Eyesore, eyeball. Crack of doom. My favorite: Dead as a doornail. 

A dish fit for the gods. A dog will have his day. Fainthearted, fool's paradise, forever and a day, foregone conclusion, the game is afoot, the game is up. Greek to meet, I’m in a pickle, in my heart of hearts, in my mind’s eye, kill with kindness. (Sigh.) Believe it or not, knock, knock, who's there?  Laugh yourself into stitches; love is blind, what the Dickens, all’s well that ends well. And a sorry sight.”

The English language at the time wasn’t enough for him. So he created, he invented, as needed to get the ideas out of his head and on to the stage or the paper.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91728-words-that-change-the-world/

they say an end can be a start /// 

"How much time?"

"Who knows? Maybe a year, maybe ten.

"Ten years? C'mon, isn't that like forever?"

God I miss you. I’m in pain. Heartbreak. I try to run from it but it’s there, a dull ache. I must acknowledge it. Hello pain, how are you. How can I help you? How can I feel you? How can I explore you? 

How can I un-avoid you?