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Writing about anything--"language"--is always a step removed from the real thing. Writing about dancing or architecture is equally precarious-- writing just boils down to the thought process, and impressions, and storytelling.
And you couple that with advertising's imperative to never say a discouraging word about anything, which I guess means a language where everything is just exceptional, and you got real problems.
I still say--someone could take those tubes, and compose a vividly detailed analysis of them, and you would know when you were done which was brightest. Unless, of course, "bright" to you is "shrill" to someone else.
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