FILE 02.03
// DOCTRINE / REFUSAL
THE NEVER-LIST
> Twenty words. The list is short and the list holds. Update it as language drifts.
01
DELVE
— a comma in costume
02
TAPESTRY
— metaphor as wallpaper
03
NAVIGATE THE LANDSCAPE
— no road, no place
04
LEVERAGE
— a verb avoiding the verb
05
ROBUST
— hope without measurement
06
IN CONCLUSION,
— no conclusion follows
07
ELEVATE YOUR
— aspiration without object
08
UNLOCK POTENTIAL
— metaphor stacked on metaphor
09
DIVE DEEP
— the surface remains the surface
10
RESONATES DEEPLY
— no chord, no room
11
FAST-PACED LANDSCAPE
— time and place pretending to be specifics
12
GAME-CHANGER
— the game is unnamed
13
AT THE END OF THE DAY,
— the day was never on trial
14
SYNERGIES
— a noun for the absence of a noun
15
CUTTING-EDGE
— the edge is decorative
16
WORLD-CLASS
— no class, no world
17
BEST-IN-CLASS
— the class is the writer’s
18
SEAMLESS
— a description of nothing
19
STREAMLINE
— a stream, lined, by whom
20
HOLISTIC
— a word for what was not listed
// POLICY
The list is not a ban. The list is a checkpoint. If the word survives the checkpoint, it earned its place. If it does not, it does not.