Quotation Marx

Quotation marks allay ownership. I read an article in which the author used the word terrorist and I thought that he would have been better to put some quotation marks around it. When one does this, in writing or in the air with one’s fingers in speech, one underscores the word with a wink, a satirical or secondary intent. But thinking more I felt glad that the aforementioned author had boldly plastered terrorist onto the page. He owned the word. He used its controversial tinge as a tool, a force. Quotation marks also mean extraction, as in extracting someone else’s words from another context, borrowing. This is fine, realizing simultaneously that once you choose it, use it, it becomes your word too, punctuation or no. Own every word.