1. Like we always do at this time …
Parole (French, meaning “speech”): a linguistic term used by Ferdinand de Sassure, which, as opposed to langue, describes language in use rather than language as a system. Parole is a dynamic, social activity in a particular time and space.
“Lasting literature has its birth when a creative impulse, which we may call imagination, moves folks to break the shackles of tradition, making things which have not been before; sooner or later this impulse is checked by a growing sense of inexorable limits of fact and of language; and then creative imagination sinks into some new tradition, to be broken only when, in time to come, the vital force of imagination shall revive.”
– Wendell Barrett, A Literary History of America
PLEASE GIVE WHAT YOU CAN TO THE PEOPLE OF HAITI AND TAKE TIME TO READ ABOUT THE PARADOXICAL HISTORY AND CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE AND PLACE. MY GRANDMA SAYS IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO LOVE, TO SHARE OR TO GIVE THANKS. SHE ALSO SAYS THAT BELATED LOVING, SHARING AND GIVING THANKS WON’T SAVE THE WORLD BUT IT CAN MAKE IT BETTER. I HOPE SHE’S RIGHT.
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