Writing Problems: Titles

Names and the power of names twist like vines around trunks. I suspect there has always been a partnership or relationship among the animals, plants, and objects around us and humans' abstract thoughts.

“Disaster” means “dark star.” “Inspiration” means “to breathe.” “Museum” means “place of the muses.” “Pisces” means “fishes." And so on.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.