According to Peter Handke's Kapsar, we are defined by language and language confines us. We see someone frown, we immediatley understand that "He is Sad." Language is this wonderful tool to descibe the world, but it cannot describe the color red or the soul.
I have to disagree, I think. Shouldn't Handke's "soul" enjoy the power of language as a tool and the challenge of trying to descibe the world around us?
If you see someone flash an ungaurded smile in reaction to a funny remark, you recognize their smile before you think the words, right? And so, "He is happy," descibes that person. We descibe and are descibed by language, not defined by language.
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