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So, here you have two visions of language: one--the "pinking
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shears," language, the horde of words--
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is for identifying things so you can do practical tasks.
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And, in this case, the practical task is Lucille's
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effort to blend in with the town.
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Ruth's conception of language is that it is a horde of expressive
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gems or (Well, that's not a good way of putting it)
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it's a vocabulary of the world that includes not only words
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but also flowers.
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And that there are beauties of each, all in their place, in this
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dictionary.
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So, if language comes, almost viscerally, from nature,