Languagey

To imagine such a world is to imagine our world: a languagey, inter-textual fictionalist world, a world of signs, a highly cultural world.

The overheard snippets of real feeling intermingled with poseur typecasting and provocative grandeur made Jayson feel that he could actually write this poem. He mumbled to himself, "of course, it'll take a lot of notes, but I think I know what poetry can do at this point in my development. I've now written it long enough alone and can do a dialogue scene or a narrative bit or a landscape or a really languagey abstract thing with short feminist lines or..."

I am a part of everything, but I am not in charge of everything, and that's a relief. I'm here to do as best I can: my watery, grainy, languagey part of the story society is constantly creating about what it means to be alive.

Back then, he admits he was more a fan of Seán Ó Faoláin, that other Cork writer who was "more languagey" than O'Connor.