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The Language of Birds: A Review of William H. Gass's On Being Blue — Sebastian Ennis | Numéro Cinq
The first blue words of this book seem to form "a soft quality in the air, a color, a flutter: permanent in their passage." Like starling murmurations on cold winter mornings, for Gass, blue is a thought without a centre; meaning softly gathers around the word the way lint collects and, at the turn of a forgotten page, takes flight. In this sense of the word, Gass writes in blue with the language of birds.