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
=)
hmaclean@kent.edu
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~hmaclean
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