has two names, opposite and parallel. One is
greek sound, one of those persuasive words, which bring with them all they need to be included (great language, greek, where words are things).
One is walking and every day, one of those words necessary, just to control the objects (these are the things to be words, at times: we put labels on things to tame, as are the things that we domesticate).
The two names do not look alike at all. One is a concept, one is a tool.
The two names are "Callistemon" and "brush". The object is to designate a plant, plant with flowers in a bad brush, red, from which it hangs just missing the plastic label, a logo moplen or PVC.
has tough leaves and unruly, the Callistemon-brush, flowers such as dense brush, branches hairy. A faint, incongruous smell of lemon completes the suspicious nature, artificial. Come from Australia, and is spreading - at least here at my latitude - anywhere. I see her ugly and fake flowers citrigni excited - the branches are quarrelsome rays, differing - on the edge of lawns and gardens, with roots hungry supplant the old vegetation, magnolias, ficus the prehistoric pine trees from the saline entry.
"No, really, toothbrushes?" Said the delighted owners of flower beds and gardens. And produces colanders and ashtrays, perhaps of a beautiful metallic gray, would be even more admirable, I suppose. Therefore, the plant has the capacity to be other things that you admire. Callistemon is his being a toothbrush, before planting.
We will live among the forests of tools that are concepts, or - worse - concepts that are tools, and populate our gardens of bad imitations, objects suspected caricatures?
They are not, perhaps, things only mirrors the patterns that we project on them relentlessly, calling them concepts, tools or brushes?
What we see in those mirrors, crowded with toothbrushes?