The Power of Speech

There is power in names. … ashe — the power which runneth through all things, subtle and flexile, which finds its most potent expression in human utterance so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations upon an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
M.T. Anderson

Wendy Hunt is an artist, illustrator, free-range thinker, musician, and writer living in the Mojave Desert. She loves the playful element of designing and developing brands, websites, and marketing goodies. Wendy has always loved maps and speculates that we can visually map our interior landscape the same way we map our physical world.

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The Power of Speech

December 24, 2009
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