That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words…and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the exhausting immensity of their “possibles”, in short their treachery, have something of quicksand about them

Georges Bataille, French intellectual, 1897 – 1962 L’expérience intérieure (Inner Experience) 

With thanks to Laura Rai,  dedicated Researcher in the Psychology Department at Maynooth,  for sending me this quote