Words can be descriptive, preparatory, communicative. But I'm beginning to believe in - to understand - their original function and capacity to DO things. The first reason a word was made was to have a power - to soothe, sparkle, pierce, open, smother - and a million other
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things. They get done by saying them, writing them, hearing them, reading them. So let me back up - the same with these actions, for which I've assigned descriptive words - these movements I do. Of course, movements can also just be descriptive, preparatory, communicative - but they ultimately have power to enact. It's simple common-sense truth: that doing things does things - and the hardest to grasp. This is magic, but not the way we've commonly been taught to understand that word. What I don't know is if a well-practiced move or a sponteneous move has more power, or if it just depends on the circumstance.
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