Debbie Foster

Grammar and memory come from playing with words, rubbing them on the fingers and on the tongue, experiencing the various meanings they give off. Textb

“I would say perceptions in French are more abstract—like hovering over an experience in a Montgolfier. It’s the reason why French thoughts tend to be

Reality, he concluded, responds to language. “Reality,” he had told me, months before, in his apartment, “is polyglot.”

As an ideological shortcut, the equation of poverty with poverty of thought is as popular as ever.

When I was small and easily wounded, books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book, they somehow mattered less. My co

Colin Wilson has described Husserl and phenomenology itself as “a prosaic way of developing the mystical faculty,”