Human Language

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““To my thinking” boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, “the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus.”
“And yours,” said the P.B.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)