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| (pieces of...) | ||||||||||||||||
| musing with mothertongue | ||||||||||||||||
| ~ Daphne Marlatt | ||||||||||||||||
| we know that language structures our world and in a crucial sense we cannot see what we cannot verbalize. | ||||||||||||||||
| the beginning: language, a living body we enter at birth, sustains and contains us. | ||||||||||||||||
| inhabitant of language | ||||||||||||||||
| placental, our flat land, our sea, it is both place and body, that body of language we speak, our mothertongue. it bears us as we are born into it, into cognition. | ||||||||||||||||
| we learn the sounds before we learn what they say... we go on learning the rest of our lives what the words are actually saying. | ||||||||||||||||
| mt | ||||||||||||||||