with our recording apparatus of every kind, we value what we can grasp and hold. But life and everything living refuses this approach. It changes as we hold it.
Absteaction, words etc, record items and thus grasps them, holding the in the verbal stasis of definition.
The irony is in the, adnittedly glacial, change still felt by some when event the denorative grasp loosens by shifting or creeping (changing) definition.

