18 The arena of Sensations

There is this quote from Somerset Maugham: “Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.”

He was, I suppose, mentioning English words. It is true. I do experience this effect when I try to write stylish sentences. I know that synonyms of the same word have different effect, and force. They do indeed have a weight. Some of the words add to the rhyme and tune of the sentence. Others do not.

For instance, the word Terrible. I can use the word Horrible also. However, both have different feel. Is it just a feeling, a sensation that has no other basis? Well, in Homoeopathy sensations are taken as powerful hints that can help decide a medicine.

I do not want to take up Homoeopathy and sensations now. But then, please mark it down that sensations are also built in codes. They are not ‘nothing’. They are real. If one has seen a dream, one has seen a dream. If one has seen a film, one has seen a film. If one has heard a song, one has heard a song. These are not mere ‘nothings’.

When I feel that the word Terrible gives a different sensation from what Horrible gives, well it is a reality, with some basis.

The word lovely gives a mental effect that is different from gorgeous.

However, that is only a minor location for discussion. When we arrive in feudal languages, the codes of words and usages become quite complicated, due to the presence of Indicant words for You, He, She, They etc.

When the word You is taken, there are different levels of YOU. Each one of them has different codes. Each one of them connects differently with other words in the language. Due to the fact that feudal languages created a virtual code design-view of heights and depths, every word in the language is affected by these towering Everests and terrifying gorges.

The same is the case with words like He, She, They etc. They have different levels. And each level has different codes that connect differently.

When one mentions words in feudal languages, one can literally sense the heaviness, lowliness, and curves and flows, blocks, restrictions etc. which they contain. Each of these attributes is encoded in the codes that create these words.

In fact, these hierarchical words do convey sensations.

Yet, again, there is this thing also to be mentioned. One might feel that the sensations are just transient emotional tugs. However, the fact remains that both sensations as well as emotions are created and run by the same software, which at the moment remains in the realm of the supernatural.

Until we are able to find out the exact supernatural software application in which they can be opened, one can only contemplate on their various attributes as one would theorise on the atmosphere of a far distant planet that revolves round a distant star.