The world is marvelous, and even outside of science there's a lot of magic ! For example, and this is what fascinate me the most, there is language. Words are amazing. With a limited amount of sounds and a bit of organization, we invented a way to name and to describe the world around us. Out of nothing : there's no reason the sound "door" means door, there is no link between the word and the thing, no link other than the fact that "door" means door in the english language, and it's true for every single word in our vocabulary. We invented words for things that don't exist, too (like "unicorn"), we named concepts and ideas, we have words that describe actions and movements, words whose sole purpose is to provide a grammatical information - we have grammar ! With grammar, even more than pointing and naming, we can organize and describe even more things : with verbs and time, we can say things that were, that will be, or that might be, or that might have been. We can conjecturate. We can also say things that are not, we can lie, we can make metaphors, we can invent ! We can create whole worlds out of nothing. We can invent stories ! Litterature is amazing. One person can evocate something completely irreal, and everybody can imagine it. People can role roleplay, and invent together the life of magical pastel-coloured ponies in the invented magical world of equestria. Things that do not exist in reality can exist in our heads. We invented writing systems ! The alphabet ! Which, again, have no link with what it describes. There is no reason the letter "a" means the sound "a" other than the fact that we decided it does. There is no reason the letters "door" means the sound "door" which means the thing "door" ! I find that fascinating. And we have poetry ! With all these words and sounds, we can play, we can use the arbitrary sounds they have to make rhymes, we can make verses with identical "times" or "length" or "size" for every one of them, we create additional rules to create aesthetically pleasing sounds and rhythms, and then with those newly-invented rythms and organizations of sounds we add hidden meanings to the poem. Language is fascinating. It can evoke, it can enchant, it can create, it's magic !
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