Continuing with Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks:
“What is naming for? It has to do, surely, with the primal power of words, to define, to enumerate, to allow mastery and manipulation; to move from the realm of objects and images to the world of concepts and names.”
Genesis 2:19
Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Naming, sorting, organizing–the first job. Now my job (thank you, Lord, for Excel). Is it your job, too?
