ABSTRACT
A student of language with understanding of time is like a student of architecture with no understanding of space. The converse is also true, for architecture must reckon with time, and language occupies space as well as time. Science has been busy pasting over the fictitious chasms by mathematical functions, by insisting, for example that particles are waves and vice versa, and that measurements of time are not independent of space, of velocity, of gravitational force and hence of matter. Picture a signal as a pulse of sound, a spherical zone of variations of atmospheric pressure, or of electromagnetic vibrations, or a letter in the mail. The particulate character of language is a manifestation of the tendency of the continuum everywhere to condense into local or temporal singularities, and into systems of singularities. Every organism is both an energy-system and a relativity-system. It is a structure of cohesive forces which give it a certain variable stability from birth till death.
