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In Wisdom Sits in Places the author tries to explain this concept of "speaking with names." I could not quite understand at first what he meant but then I remembered a Star Trek: The Next Generation epsiode where Picard ends up on this planet with a captain of an alien ship. They had problems communicating because the alien's people's way of communicating was relaying old stories and myths that pertain to the situation to formulatet a conversation.

It is easier to understand if you see the episode.

Picard helped me figure out my anthropology reading. This is why Star Trek is greatness.

Back to the Western Apache.

And their love scene drew out, having the inestimable gain of a new language. No tradition overawed the boys. No convention settled what was poetic, what absurd. They were concerned with a passion that few English minds have admitted, and so created untrammelled. Something of exquisite beauty arose in the mind of each at last, something unforgettable and eternal, but built of the humblest scraps of speech and from the simplest emotions.

"I say, will you kiss me?" asked Maurice, when the sparrows woke in the eaves above them, and far out in the woods the ringdoves began to coo.

Clive shook his head, and smiling they parted, having established perfection in their lives, at all events for a time.

-Maurice by E.M. Forster

Your College Life by highfivejunkie
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What will you study?
Your Roomate	cruisedirector
The Football Player	starya
The Cheerleader	thedaan
The Band Geek	katiemacalister
Highly involved in their Frat/Sorority	theo_winterwood
The Crazy Drunk	billabong87chic
The College Slut	nightgoddess56
Your Significant Other	kiarasayre
The Creep that sneaks into girl's showers	gr8t_gatsby
Likeliness you'll graduate: 58%
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