Joshua Ahlers
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The City We Live In
The simple syntax of the question ‘How are you?’ expresses complex semantics. If true, you would then be under the impression that the answer to such a general question would be elusive, muddled down by the hopeless attempt to authentically express oneself through the use of a third party we call language. Despite all this abstraction, the answer to man's question was simple; Roger didn’t know. Yet, he had no way of saying such a thing. Everyone was okay; no one felt anything different. No one could ever begin to feel such an emotion without a quick fix of Imperium, and so, the varied meaning the word should elicit was lost in his response,
By Joshua Ahlers4 years ago in Fiction
The City We Live In
The simple syntax of the question ‘How are you?’ expresses complex semantics. If true, you would then be under the impression that the answer to such a general question would be elusive, muddled down by the hopeless attempt to authentically express oneself through the use of a third party we call language. Despite all this abstraction, the answer to man's question was simple; Roger didn’t know. Yet, he had no way of saying such a thing. Everyone was okay; no one felt anything different. No one could ever begin to feel such an emotion without a quick fix of Imperium, and so, the varied meaning the word should elicit was lost in his response,
By Joshua Ahlers4 years ago in Fiction
The City We Live In
The simple syntax of the question ‘How are you?’ expresses complex semantics. If true, you would then be under the impression that the answer to such a general question would be elusive, muddled down by the hopeless attempt to authentically express oneself through the use of a third party we call language. Despite all this abstraction, the answer to man's question was simple; Roger didn’t know. Yet, he had no way of saying such a thing. Everyone was okay; no one felt anything different. No one could ever begin to feel such an emotion without a quick fix of Imperium, and so, the varied meaning the word should elicit was lost in his response,
By Joshua Ahlers4 years ago in Fiction
