Works

“They 

glossodéti : tongue-tied : silenced

“They kept giving her oxygen. I wanted to tell them it wouldn’t work, it was no good. She was drowning in air. At night I brought her bowls of water, lowered her face in, watched the bubbles, saw how she came up just about smiling.”

“For a long time, still, bodily, within her body she has answered the harassment, the familial conjugal venture of domestication, the repeated attempts to castrate her. Woman, who has run her tongue ten thousand times seven times around her mouth before not speaking, either dies of it or knows her tongue and her mouth better than anyone."

An erasure of communication.

“The Virago, the woman with sperm, has a tongue that foams. No father without a husband, without children, always I am weeping and weeping. No body, no belly, no breasts, just a Tongue. Why are the workings of grief not done? The tongue tightens, stiffens, takes root; it withstands rest and sleep for the sake of the father’s non-body.”

glosso

“Woman has no qualms about domestic war where her tongue is her weapon, and for this purpose, nature has given her the gift of chatter, and passionate volubility which disarms man.” 

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"Can one kill with a tongue?”

“I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no.”

GAS

Definition: To Talk 

Type: Slang (Jargon)