WORDS

Have you ever been jealous of WORDS?

"The unit of language" is what the Oxford English Dictionary defines 'word' as. Have you ever felt that the word sometimes is more than the unit of language. They say that the meaning of a sentence is more than the sum of meanings of its words, but is the value of a word as good as its sentence?. I like to think otherwise, because words are just that WORDS. You cannot define a word, but yes, you can feel it, express using it and also play with it, but you can never quite define a word. This is where i tend to get very frustrated with these words. I can understand the sentence they are used in , I can understand why they used there, I can even understand what the word is supposed to mean, But i can never quite get across to knowing the meaning of the word.
I am quite sure you must have heard of 'CATCH 22' or 'MIDNIGHT's CHILDREN'. These books are literary legends and are already part of folklore. I took to reading these books recently and i have to say i was quite amazed at the usage of words in this book. The words themselves were not profound but the way they were used was mind-boggling. While heller uses his words in such a twisted sense that you feel a sense of sarcasm at every word you come acrosss, rushdie is more straight forward, but nevertheless, the thread of words he uses to describe situations and emotions is amazing. I take the instance of these books because they show you that the a sentence can only be connected by a thread and also give you a profoundness about its meaning [and also because these are the only 2 books i have read in the jouner].
Now coming to the jealousy part, i was mended and sometimes laughing at the sentences that i found in these books, But i never could get around the fact that they somehow made so much sense on the whole that all i could do was admire them, even though i couldn't understand them. This is what frustrated me to the hilt, these books had sentences so profound and yet the emotions came across so clearly that i was left confused. and it was all due to those 'UNITS', those nagging little things hanging around sentences when you read them. What did i do? Well i went back to my staple of fictious fiction.