Current Topic: "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" Marcel Marceau.


I never met the guy, but I guess he wasn’t a justice demon – not my kind, anyway. Everyone thinks of us as the musical operatives but the truth is that words are my shtick. I work with the words that give shape to love and hate, to indifference and frustration and to rage and sorrow and fear.

I know the grey words that lure depression out to dance in the flickering shadows, while grief cries in a minor key. All the secrets lured out of the dark, given shape with the words, set to a tune to give them dancing shoes and put on stage to entertain.

That’s only the beginning, of course. That’s the overture. Who knows what happens after the curtain falls?

It can be kind of frightening to realize how much intelligent creatures have in common. “In the beginning was the word - and that’s one of the big secrets. Words are the difference between a thinking creature and an animal. Words shape the thoughts that shape your worlds.

Muse; Sweet the Singing Demon,
Fandom, BTVS
Words, 175.