Futility

The moment a word leaves our lips it is subject to deconstruction and subjective meaning. For example, in Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, a snowman attempts to put meaning to the word "toast", but ultimately comes to the conclusion that "toast cannot be explained by any rational means." The way we describe what a word, object, or idea is by using other words/objects/ideas. There is no absolute meaning we can boil a word down to other than "thing", which is no description at all. After a failed attempt at describing the word toast, the snowman muses that toast is "a pointless invention from the Dark Ages" or "an implement of torture." The conclusion he reaches is that toast - or any other word for that matter - is exactly what you want it to be. Toast is different for each person according to his/her subjective knowledge of it. We can never know what a word/object/idea truly means because there is no original word/object/idea we can relate it to and derive its meaning from.

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

~Scribbles