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"Human verbal communication can operate and always does operate at many contrasting levels of abstraction." – Gregory Bateson (1955) "A Theory of Play and Fantasy". in: Psychiatric Research Reports, 1955. pp. 177-178
"Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." – Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, "Life of Johnson" (1743).
"His speech was substantial, and its contents extensive. The messenger, whose mouth was heavy, was not able to repeat it. Because the messenger, whose mouth was tired, was not able to repeat it, the lord of Kulaba patted some clay and wrote the message…
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