'Despite their spelling, the word and the world are not intimately acquainted. As a matter of fact they may well never have met! The metaphysician cuts everything up according to his language, things become either/or. The metaphysician plants letters on the moon, he colonises space with words. It is one small step for man, one giant, impossible, leap for language. Everything is neatly divided up into word categories like the Absolute and mere perception, Heaven and Hell. 'The metaphysician has infected reality with the dualism found within his language. He has attempted to grammatise the
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