i refer to a way of looking at the world which deliberately examines details in a distinctly literal and direct way
"A distinctly literal" way is about as indirect as one can get. Words have not separate inherent meaning. It is the space around them that creates the meaning, even if many are unaware that the space - which lacks concrete form - exists. What was that thing you quoted once "everything contains an echo of what it is not." By playing with the resonances, maginfying some echos, covering up others then what a word stands for can be changed. This is how misappropriation works. This how "we must restrict freedom in order to protect liberty" doesn't have every English speaker in the world going "WTF"? The concept of literal is practically fictitional as it implies that a one-real-true-meaning exists.
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"A distinctly literal" way is about as indirect as one can get. Words have not separate inherent meaning. It is the space around them that creates the meaning, even if many are unaware that the space - which lacks concrete form - exists. What was that thing you quoted once "everything contains an echo of what it is not." By playing with the resonances, maginfying some echos, covering up others then what a word stands for can be changed. This is how misappropriation works. This how "we must restrict freedom in order to protect liberty" doesn't have every English speaker in the world going "WTF"? The concept of literal is practically fictitional as it implies that a one-real-true-meaning exists.
Okay, I'm through quibbling now.
As far the rest: I completely agree.