In this video lecture for the Long Now Foundation, Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores what Piraha, both the people and the language, can teach us about human nature.
Synecdoche
"The only difference between memory and imagination is that we choose to ascribe to truth to one and not the other." -Tom Blue Wolf
