Torture by any other name

I am currently taking inspiration (and maintaing my subscription to the SMH) from today's article by Salman Rushdie about the murder of language and truth in this latest war. "extraordinary rendition" is perhaps one of the ugliest and most frightening examples of the power of renaming.

Let us reclaim our favourite words early on this year to save them from this. If i catch the us govt messing with these words i will, as a dear friend says, sedition their arses.

My Claims are:

Hirsute ~ mainly because i remember it because it kind of sounds like hair suit. It is also quite a regal word.

Acquiesce ~ a word which is performed through merely saying it. (aka Byron's Don Juan "and still she strove and much repented and whispering 'i'll ne'er consent', consented")

Words, words, words says Hamlet. R & G say they're all we have to go on. They are also the last line of defense, the congruence between the unthinkable and the unpronouncable and pure gibberish nonsense is closer than we might have thought.

ps. When did the phrase “my favourite artists…” Allow for the insertion of names like Madonna and Delta Goodrem instead of Klee, Modigliani, Magritte, Kahlo? Taking this one back also.