nuances

"Words have edges. So do you."

Words do have edges. They begin with a letter. They end with a letter. Bigger versions begin with a capital and end with a dot. Between a word and its closest synonym is a spectrum of space, where meanings abound. Meanings we can understand but words cannot articulate. Sometimes touch, glances, and tone can help narrow the gap. But still, our brain remains more precise than any of the rest of our faculties can hope to reach. It can wrap around an idea and swallow it whole like a clever reptile, ingesting everything but tasting nothing. So we attribute the phenomenon to "intuition" and leave it at that.

It's amazing, of course. But it's also a shame. The most sophisticated thing we are capable of turns out to be the psychological equivalent of the dark side of the moon. Because I can't get inside your head, and you can't tell me. Because I stand on the precipice of my final syllable, and you stand on the cliff of another.

And so we'll never know.

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