9268. YOU CAN'T

YOU CAN'T

Old Doc Malcolm said this once:

'You can't redeposit the suppository.'

I started laughing at that, he was so

right. And I didn't know what else

to do. So many things are like that.

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I guess anyway. You can't reboil that

egg; we'll I suppose you could, but why?

You can't un-paint that fence  -  though

you could certainly re-paint it, that

always stands. He hit it well, right

on the head, the way he put it, and

it seemed so simple.

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Maybe that's the point about 'good'

language : it gets it done without any

malice or forethought. You just state

what you state. Period. Everything

then comes down to just 'words.'

It's all in how we say it. We learn.

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The horse can't ride the horse.

But you can.