no one can compete with a ghost

historical society sad doll.

i think she might have lived here:

From Darkmans by Nicola Barker. 2007. Harper Collins.

p.646

“This bizarre secret language it’s amazingly weird. Very beautiful, too. Most of it’s probably fallacious- just a wild fabrication. But that hardly even matters, really. I mean where do words come from anyway? What is it that gives a word its longevity, its staying power? Who legitimizes it? Why? And how?”