When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. -Christopher Ricks

 

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.


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When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

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