The Kekulé Therapy: How To Write Books Without Reading Them
Language is not a biological operative "The unconscious is a biological operative. It is an animal machine designed for the governance of an animal. Language is not. Language is an invasive technology. It is a system. A parasitic system. And habits of two million years duration are hard to break. The unconscious is just not used to giving verbal instructions and is not happy doing so. Habits of two million years duration are hard to break. It's not that the unconscious doesn't know how to speak, it's just that it prefers to use its own native tongue - which is the language of signs and symbols. There is no selection at work in the evolution of language because language is not a biological system… The language virus did not evolve through small mutations. It came all at once like a sudden infection." Cormac McCarthy, The Kekulé Problem ## **Introduction: The Cure Is Not More Words but Fewer** In his remarkable essay *The Kekulé Problem*, Cormac McCarthy begins...