"Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge."
— Walter Benjamin

January 1, 1970

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The enslavement of language in prattle is joined by the enslavement of things in folly almost as its inevitable consequence. — "On Language as Such and on the Language of Man" (1916), translated by E. Jephcott, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 1 (1996), p. 72