Lingua ejus loquetur judicium

I find myself constantly recalling this line from Dennis Cooper's 2000 novel, Period, which I read recently:

That's words. They're the problem. Words have this awful, downsizing effect on your thoughts.

Yes, that's true. Words often require us to distort our unspoken thoughts in the attempt to express ourselves aloud. But words also have the capacity to form their own helpful little world of clarity. They're not so bad.

So here's to more words here at Käseblatt in 2007.

Und weiter wünsche ich Euch ganz herzlich einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!