In English, we use bantam to suggest bantam-like situations in our life or living experiences. If the situation is not bantam-like we could easily express that by the term ‘non bantam-like’. In this way language has swayed with or even bowed to our articulation and knowledge, proving our own provocative standing in the communication sphere. Bantam as a word gleaned from hearing bantam used in accepted or at least prevalent meaningful usages by those who tend to style in such usage empowers us to sling the word with calm reliance. So bantam becomes not just a language presence and locus for meaning or whatever, but an expansion of the world into details of bantams and all possibilities of bantam news, and non news. This process can extend to every fucking word extant but no matter, only the jazzy, poetic ones are important.
Walking is not walking if Gertrude chooses not to walk. The premise: Gertrude Stein is not walking. She may be on a boat, not walking, crossing the wide ocean sea. Leaving inevitable France but not walking. Dramatic but not walking. Sentenced but not walking. There were days of walking but not this day. Reading or just looking but not walking.There were sentences full of walking but not walking. Talking maybe but not walking in or out. A time lived and walking was done then if not now. It was a doing and it was a done. Not forgetting Alice who may have had walking done or even doing. The annals say Leo Stein walked along, up to and including the degree of not walking, along. Those flower names walked along, Matisse, Picasso, Laurencin, in varieties. An adding war or two closed or opened anything jump. Apollinaire in the historical. Languages of shapes and sizes bounding for just the time and a little beyond. And that was the how sentence. In that time but also forward until readi...
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