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Words and other Pronouns

One century has words, another century chooses words; another century uses words and then another century using the words no longer has them1
Gertrude Stein

Destroying Troy2
One era started with a pronoun, then an era chose to use the pronoun to create another set of words and a word named century used the word alter to modify the words up to the time yet another century using the pronouns no longer owns them. Now the next decade no longer understands but abuses the words and the pronouns till last year -the elevenththey destroyed the words and the last of the surviving words was the word desTroy.

1 Gertrude Stein, Lectures in America quoted in Seven American Literary Stylists from Poe to Mailer, an introduction - edited by George T. Wright, ISBN 0-8166-0677-3 (1961) 2 Inspired by Gertrude Stein's Lectures in America

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