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whether words somehow belong to reality and embody truths about God and the world or whether they are primarily signs employed by the powerful to order the world according to their purposes.
The latter ("signs employed by the powerful") expresses a Lockian manipulation, but less detestable options also exist.
“Identity” had been forever changed by the Internet; formerly it had meant “who you really are” but now it meant “any one of a number of persistent faces that you can present to the digital universe.”
― Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
― Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“A civilization can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn’t know.”
― Deadhouse Gates
― Deadhouse Gates
“You ever think that maybe what you are is what’s trapping you inside whatever it is you’re trapped inside?”
― Deadhouse Gates
― Deadhouse Gates
“Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.”
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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