101. What do the words mean? 102. What did those words mean to her, four centuries removed from the believers for whose benefit they were preached? 103. What those words mean in practice, however, is less clear. 104. When he speaks, he knows what his words will mean, at least until he is faced with questions coming back at him. 105. Words have never meant more. 106. Yet at times opera has also thrived with audiences who had scant idea of what the words meant. 107. You always ask what new words mean when we read bedtime stories. 108. Your employee has already shown that his word means nothing. 109. Because it puts a barrier between people and their understanding of what the words mean. |