Rubbish-texts. Waste-words. Litter-letters. We don’t have to look for a good example of a rubbish text. Here it is: Thoughts-prey. Thoughts-predators. Mind-jungle. Mind-desert. The title of the lecture clarifies everything, and if so, then the text below the title makes everything only less clear. This is neither a lecture nor a poem, and if it were a piece of prose poetry, it might be a piece of poetry prose as well. Briefly speaking and writing: rubbish text. A text-rubbish. It could and should be crumpled and thrown out. Unfortunately it hasn’t been written on paper, but is displayed on a monitor, and it’s not a good idea to crumple and throw out a monitor that displays also texts which don’t deserve to be condemned. It’s not easy to tell which texts are rubbish. Of course, there are texts which are rubbish with no doubt: they were rubbish-texts, they are, and will be, for ever, by any standards (although even such texts can be loved and collected enthusiastically like plastic yoghurt cups which are stored because you never know when you might need one or a few of them). There are texts which delight us right in the moment they have been written and during their short lives; we forgot them shortly after and when we find them years later they deeply confuse and horrify us. But there are also texts which threaten us, frustrate, drive to despair (even the authors themselves), and all, or almost all, would like to destroy and erase them at once considering them a lethal poison for our minds more dangerous than prions and viruses attacking brains, that is why such texts sink into oblivion right after they have been written, nobody, or almost nobody, wants to read them, and when they are found years later they delight us with beautiful phrases, astonish us with clear-sightedness and most profound insight, make us euphoric about exquisite combinations of words... Yes, all this generates problems, bewilder us profoundly... It would be much easier if the text was damaged, incomplete, crumpled, dirty, torn into pieces, eaten by mice. Well, not necessarily easier – a rubbish for some people, a treasure for the others... But these problems only outlined above are not big problems, really, for they are related to subjective opinions (the real problem, not solved so far, is the objective evaluation of a text), what can we do with the fact the text-rubbish, the one nobody, or almost nobody, doubt it is rubbish (so it is rubbish objectively, its rubbishness is objective) is composed of words which are not rubbish, not waste? Which words used in the paragraph above can be considered rubbish, debris, litter? Some people will indicated words which are not absolutely necessary to present the message. The others will indicate words which are a sort of embellishment, like a trill at the right note. Some other people will indicate words which maybe bring additional expression and emphasize the rhythm of the phrase but burden the message making it less clear... Probably all of them, and some others as well, are right, yet their remarks are related to the context rubbishness, not to the rubbishness at large. While we are interested first of all in the non-context rubbishness, absolute litterness, general wasteness. When a word is worn out enough to be thrown away? Should withal be withdrawn because it’s not used? But it can be heard at the stage, in a theatre, can be read in a book by Shakespeare, so can any word used by him be considered waste?... So, maybe the foreign words could be waste for they pollute the mother tongue. Yes, they could, obviously, but you need to be careful, otherwise the language of your mother and father can shrink to a handful of non-waste words… How about dirty words, all those curses and swearing? What would the language be worth without them? Oh, as much as with, withal, them, though an important element would be lacking... So, how about slangs, argots, lingos, jargons, and all possible alternations and variants, as well as errors and mistakes and twisters and... And again: it happens, quite often, almost regularly, that a text which absolutely is not a rubbish is composed of rubbish words, or at least contains many such waste words – it’s not astonishing at all, it can even make you stoned. Letters. Litter-letters. Those scrawled or printed badly, blurred and smudged, or turned by water into an illegible stain are not the point (although they could be easily thrown away), nor the types designed badly, or beautiful but much too bizarre... We should rather think of those ones which are not needed because they visualize sounds which we don’t pronounce any more and which our ears can’t recognize. Such a big problem with only a few dozens of letters, what can say those who instead of letters use hundreds or thousands of signs? Well, they say a lot, and ever and again, more or less regularly make a reform of their script. So they throw away a part of signs, but they don’t throw away the words. How could a word be thrown away? A text-rubbish can be binned, can be even recycled, words can be used to compose another text, better or worse. How can a word be binned? Some forbid to use it, punish severely somebody who says or writes it. But the word doesn’t disappear. A banned word is not a binned word. It should be erased from memory, because even though the mouth doesn’t pronounce it and hand doesn’t write it, mind still remembers it. Texts, words, letters – what a messy situation it is! what a mess they are! No chances to clean the mind. Absolutely not. We are living in the time of waste sorting, so let’s think where the waste words should be binned. Let us not pretend, let us not make us believe they are not litter. They are. They are awful rubbish. Let us not justify them, and ourselves as well, that only some of them can be considered rubbish – all of them are rubbish, waste, litter, debris, garbage, trash... all... with no almost. Many people would insist words should be classified as mixed waste, so the ones that can not be segregated because it’s impossible to determine their origin and materials they are made of. We would put them into a yellow bin. We have much more confidence than doubt words are a synthetic material using polyaudiomers as a main ingredient. And we write shaking pens or pencils: wastes, wastes, wastes... <<<