Stammer

Stammer is no handicap. It is a mode of speech. Stammer is the silence that falls between the word and its meaning, just as lameness is the silence that falls between the word and the deed. Did stammer precede language or succeed it? Is it only a dialect or a language itself? These questions make the linguists stammer. Each time we stammer we are offering a sacrifice to the God of meanings. When a whole people stammer stammer becomes their mother-tongue: just as it is with us now. God too must have stammered when He created man. That is why all the words of man carry different meanings. That is why everything he utters from his prayers to his commands stammers, like poetry.