Poets forge vocabularies. Their choice of words is often voluntarily lackluster. And the most commonly employed word, the most worn, when used in the right place, will suddenly take on an extraordinary brilliance.
“There will be extraordinary unpredictable outbursts, a sort of volatility, largely driven by extremist cults of one sort or another… That’s what we have to look forward to — that, plus the Internet and Virtual Reality. People will retreat into these electronic hideaways.”
J. G. Ballard