Defamiliarization

The extensive piceous compressed passage weaves in and out of the structures that appear in many different shapes and sizes. Most are box shaped but some are rectangle or round like a circle. Some are very very tall making them appear like they could maybe reach heaven they are so high. And in these different shaped structures many different size and shaped creatures go to and from them. Some very high, some low, some wide around the perimeter, and some threadlike around the perimeter. And besides the different amount of mass that these creatures possess, they also come in many different iridescence. Some are very aphotic in their iridescence, like they’ve been grazed from the golden sphere that sits high about the many shaped structures and many different masses of the multiple iridescent creatures. Some are almost lucent like they have never seen a day of the golden sphere in their existence. Others are a tinge between both, that appear to be somewhat grazed by the golden sphere above them. The creatures also have millions of fibers coming out from one side of the orb shaped ends of their frames. On the other side of the orb there appears to be two smaller orbs that vary in hues of each creature, just like the fibers and the outer covering of these creatures’ frames. The two small circles move around a lot, especially when the other creatures holler to them in their native language that involves a clacking and a clicking of the orb below these two colorful circles in what appears to be an opening. In which the creatures place many different objects into, such as other smaller creatures and substances that become larger, when liquid drawn from a body of hydrogen and oxygen is taken and descended onto the substances. And when the golden sphere spreads its irradiation upon the substance they evolve much faster. Above the opening on the orb of the creatures is an area of the creatures that protrudes outwards. It too contains two holes in which the creatures use to inhale the substances that appear from the crumbly dark entity below them.



Analysis # 2 - Sassure's Theory of the Sign

If Sassure were to view this blog on defamiliarization it would prove his theory of the sign. We all have a picture in our head of what a word means to us. We hear a certain word (the signifier) and think of an automatic picture (the Signified) in our mind of what that word means to us. The words I used in this blog such as creature (for human) and orb (for head) was not the usual signifier that we use to process the pictures of a human and a head that we associate with. Our associations of words and pictures make it so we tend to block out any other possible associations with the word. For example, “…it is clear that only the associations sanctioned by that language appear to us to conform to reality, and we disregard whatever others might be imagined” (Rivkin 61)