Ellipsis
Three dots can say it all…
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Three dots.
Ellipsis.
A full stop that doesn’t want to be alone.
An ending that continues.
A declaration of an omission; an omission that reverses itself, if decoded by the reader.
A manifestation of cowardice at one extreme, but the absolute courage at the other.
Unclear communication on the one side of the coin, pure intercommunication on the other.
A lack-of-words so “wordy”, that includes the completeness of non-lacking.
A mark so liberated and liberating, that gives the absolute freedom to the receivers of the message to interpret it as they please.
Because you have to be really free to let others be free, too.
The earth’s orbit is also an ellipsis. So, we have to deal with ellipsis from the moment we are born on this spherical battle-field. But, the ellipsis contains a lot of answers, if we really manage to read between the …dots.
The languages of nations aren’t exactly the point here; the language of the Universe though, is. — Right, Pythagoras? —
I sent an email that contained just these three dots. The receiver totally understood the meaning…
Originally Published on Medium, hosted by Franco Amati’s “Scuzzbucket”
If you swim in the Social Media ocean, you’ll find me somewhere here for Instagram and here for Facebook, on a raft like the one Odysseus had, monologuing sometimes in Greek and sometimes in English.
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Anthi Psomiadou — CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International : Credit must be given to the creator/ Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted/ No derivatives
Love it. I was told that I use too many ellipses in my written communications. It really triggers some, for some reason. But you nailed it - I don't like full stops, and I like endings that continue... :)