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"The Writing of Harlots"
Gum Bichromate on BFK © 1997
The symbolic abilities that underlie human language made human culturepossible, forever setting us apart from all other animals. The humancapacity for language has enabled this big-brained, loud-mouthed,featherless biped to overrun the earth - as if, by the gift of language,we are endowed by the gods with immortal souls. The vocabulary of anylanguage is really a cultural heritage - a repository for all thatprevious generations deemed worthy of recognition. However, few thingsare less durable than the sound of a human voice. Claims about what aperson knows, means, remembers, thinks or expects are speculative at best- words that are almost (but not exactly) what we wanted to say.
© jezebel 1997
"Pornography (n):
The writing of harlots.
The depiction of erotic behavior intended to cause sexual excitement.
Obscene literature, art, or photography, especially that having little or no artistic merit."
