When does an infant 'get' words? What alchemy transmutes sensory stimulated brain responses into consciousness and vocal sounds into language? These questions fascinate me as much as "What was not before space and time is?"
nothing . . .
all over in less
than a second
There seems to me a bitter cosmic irony in the fact that a man, who has given his whole life and energy to a brief history of time and the theory of everything, as physical and mathematical constructs, can only voice his words to us via computer-generated sound responding to his barely detectable cheek movements.
the hour glass
waste
of her words
