The Particular is the Universal

Given the way to speak she parts her lips only to say what she can, nothing. Given the words to speak yet withheld the words to express she’d rather say nothing. She could either fall back into the arms of humble practicality or walk the tightrope of self-expression. To contain the voice of two tongues is a burden to any mind but to also cage two voices – unbearable. To convey her sense of hem, how it feels to andas Swedish air she is incapable, bound by logic and devoid of sentimentality. To have that void is a sentiment in itself, it says what it cannot say. She continues to feel nonetheless. No matter what is scrawled on the blackboards, written in the books, there will always be the dreaded choice. To think or to express, att tänka eller uttrycka to visualise or to act att visualisera eller att agera Forked tongues. Communication is not always about receiving a message, but an inability...