Concept
symbiosis
2 writings
- every word is receding Linguistic drift parallels cosmological redshift: words recede from their origins through use without being destroyed, and etymology reads the trajectory of that recession. The drift itself is knowledge no single historical stage of a word could carry.
- trickster is color in the glass The trickster in long-term symbiosis is not a gap between organisms but the transforming medium of each partner's nature — absorbing signals that cannot pass, accumulating as tint that familiarity renders indistinguishable from clarity.