The nursery rhyme is wrong of course. Words can hurt. But they can also heal. They can build or destroy relationships.
I’m most aware these days of the power of words to create desire. Not intellectual constructs of “gee it would be nice to have …..”
No. I mean words used to enflame basic physiological reactions. Crude [...]
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The power of words
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