Repetition of difference

These words, dispersed in varied social fields across the time, suffer all kind of transformations: its meaning is altered, its graphic and acoustic forms incessantly repeats itself in different mouths, hands, ears, eyes…; the sense of what they say changes according to the context. This historical bustle of words owes to its finite character; unable to multiply it without end (naming every different stone and different leaf with different drawings and different sounds), we submit them to an eternal return across the time, and finally become empty. "The words, too much repeated, get exhausted and die. The spirit would need an infinite vocabulary, but its means are limited to a few terms trivialized by use" [1]

[1] CIORAN, Emil. A Short History of Decay.