>At 08:52 PM 11/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>When I first found this quote I was sure that Dick was either quoting
>>Chomsky or paraphrasing him, but I haven't been able to find it in any of
>>my Chomsky,
>>Bill
>> "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of
>>words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the
people
>>who must use the words."
>> PKD
>
>Humpty Dumpty sez ('in a rather scornful tone'):
>
>'When -I- use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more
>nor less.'
>'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you -can- make words mean so many
>different things.'
>'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master--that's all.'
>
>Heather
Gods, I love Alice in Wonderland! "Beware the Jabberwock my son"
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