My Story + The World's Words

On looking between words and seeing through them to the other side + the brutality of flowers + the magic and elasticity of language + strange constraints for recapturing wildness & wonder

Yesterday, a friend who is writing about fairy tales emailed me in response to my Assay essay about narrators and child narrators to say that in the world of fairy tales, children use language “to point in between, around, or beyond words. If as adults we use words to classify, young children still have only a tentative grasp on the mental act of catego…