What we mean
Is not to be articulated
Because words aren't enough
To accommodate meaning.
Not even the ship of poetry
Can bring meaning home to you.
Why, then, do we speak at all?
Because being human means
Being doomed to persevere futilely.
~Orange
Words are not a repository, merely a medium. You will not find meaning 'in' words but you may express meaning 'by' them. There is no such thing as words which mean exactly something, there are no exact words.. only inexact words, used to designate something exactly... or at least those constitute my outlook on the matter.. Quite a deep question you've picked up though.. and i sense an overdoes of a particular aspect of Derrida?
ReplyDeleteHaha, I think I understood differance long after I had written this :P
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, the end sort of indicates towards expression of meaning through them. The futility rests in fixing meaning of words, which in themselves are empty, to communicate. So, here's a cognizance of expression of meaning through words (words aren't enough => meaning spills out of them. But spilling out has to mean some sort of containment, right?), but there's a general discontent with the fact that they're not enough.