Month: March 2021

If it had never been destroyed, the world would not care about Pompeii.

Just because someone has never been born, has never breathed, has never taken a first step or spoken a first word, has never experienced the glory and agony of a formal education, has never grown up into a maladjusted adult with an uninspiring job, has never paid taxes and memorized a social security number, has never worried about the future and the meaning of it all, and will never need to face the quietus of death, that doesn’t mean that person has never lived.

Language is monogamous, but words are polyamorous.