Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which compose them, mere sounds of the voice to which we have agreed to give certain significations, as we have agreed to translate these sounds by those combinations of letters?

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	September 6, 2007
ISBN13	9781604241686
Publishers	Book Jungle
Pages	444
Dimensions	191 × 235 × 23 mm · 757 g
Language	English

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