as long as i’m here

“the enemy of silence is speech, but there can be no speech without words, and there can be no words without meanings— so it follows inexorably, in the manner of syllogisms, that when we try to speak of events of which we do not know the meaning, we must lose ourselves in the silence that lies in the gap between words and the world.” 

a quote from amitav ghosh’s essay entitled the greatest sorrow: times of joy recalled in wretchedness.