Conversation

"I grasped that it is not wise to merely put together words like a crow collecting and gathering in her nest pebbles and pieces of glass, although she can, without knowing, also pick up a diamond, because, what does a crow know? . . .. . . Only when you have pronounced a complete thought, a proposition or a 'statement', you begin to speak. Until then, the use of words is simply ‘Pidgin Human’”
- Lamed Shapiro, the Writer Goes To School, 1945, trans. by
me, Mordecai Martin