Unstable Language

…his Journals

assume a household use;

We learn to shape from them, where nothing was

The language of a race

It is through this journal that a different language is birthed. We must assume this for if this were not the case the journal would not have to “assume a household use” it would have already been one. Therefore we can also infer that through language another race has been created in the native’s eyes; for we can only really know our selves through the juxtaposition of the other. So essentially the “learning” of language is to comprehend the idea of other races and consequently, the idea of the human race. Before “his journal” came there were no other humans, but there were a variety of fish, different species. This formation of language that beget the idea of race, that begets the human race is ironic in that it would be more logical to invert the equation to human race=different race=language. Also if we were to look at this dilemma through a post-structuralist lens, it’s ironic that the journal, catalyst for the Native’s arduous journey on comprehending this idiom, is the source of knowledge for this language. Language can never fully be grasped because we do not have the means to understand this language due to its forever changing nature. So this idea of another race, consequently human race is predicated on a journal that inadequately represents language.