The sweat from my hands began smearing the print on my pages. Is “pezkle” a word? Quickly I looked it up in my English/Ramish dictionary. I found no entry under “pezkle,” however; this may be a statement of definition all on its own. The inhabitants of Ramageland may have considered including “pezkle” in their literary cannon, but perhaps more of a declaration (assuming the word carries a meaning in the lack of definition) than just a mere classification, would be to omit the word from the dictionary altogether. Or, pezkle could just be the overactive, over stimulated mind of a tired traveler and her nervous hands. As I boarded the plane, my mind transformed from nervous to excited, eager to understand more about the phantom concepts hidden within the fertile rhetorical forests of Ramageland.
Armed with only my User’s guide to Rhetoric (which offers no concrete concepts of the culture and customs), Ramageland became a free-for-all of exploration, discovery and confused head scratching. The question, “Am I acting or am I being acted upon?” (15) is constantly called into being between the pages of Ramage, but only offers evidence to the circumstances that raise this question in the first place.
A new cultural concept for me, that it is not in the answer, but in the searching for the answer that you will find what it is you are looking for. In this respect, I think it is important for every person who “thirsts,” to search past the answer, and remain unquenched. A human being’s “thirst” to define oneself outside of our physical being is what drives us to move forward in thought. If we ever became fully satisfied and understanding of what and why we are, then the importance of the search would be lost, and thus so would end our attempts to better ourselves. The meaning of life must remain hidden for one to find it. It is not under a rock, and does not magically appear in a vision, but over time builds into a peace out of experience. It is not what you experience, but how you experience it. The laws of Ramageland are clear on one thing; not one person, thing or idea is bound by an absolute definition, but rather the shifting clarity of what something is defines the object itself for only that moment in time, and never again. It appears that in Ramageland, every thought and inspiration is bound only by time, not by the definition we assign to it.
so there it is...enjoy it, hate it, read it over and over, or never read it again, it's up to you.
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