Why is the wordless state so desirable? BURROUGHS: I think…
Why is the wordless state so desirable?
BURROUGHS: I think it's the evolutionary trend. I think that words are an around-the-world, ox-cart way of doing things, awkward instruments, and they will be laid aside eventually, probably sooner than we think.
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«Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?»
—Zhuangzi
I wonder if Burroughs was imagining something like Bitcoin