The Search for the Perfect Language - Making of Europe book-new-arrivals-2025-03-01 "A horrifyingly comic novel of

"A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age" — Guardian

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How to Talk to Anybody About Anything

Pecola Breedlove

The Search for the Perfect Language - Making of Europe book-new-arrivals-2025-03-01 "A horrifyingly comic novel ofThe idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance, it was widely believed that the language spoken