A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. — John Berger, Confabulations
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A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.

— John Berger, Confabulations
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