Words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew.
A.S. Byatt
Those words... National and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.
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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
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Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
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