The Giver
"The themes we find can feel fleeting and unsteady — until we name them."
Stories — true, invented, or somewhere in-between.
"The themes we find can feel fleeting and unsteady — until we name them."
"Cooking is not an exact science." Neither is semiotics.
She has no way of knowing how she knows.
"Each new clue twists and turns Talbot’s perspective… and ours too."
To live in the wider world, you need to recognize that meaning is… "twisty."
She skilfully decodes everything she can see.
You must feel the research with instinct, intuition, and empathy.
We journey to unfamiliar and sometimes quite strange conceptual spaces.
"Versions of the Blue Fairy connote everything from faith to desire, dream, destination…"
"I wanted to bottle this place to drink it…"
As she shifts languages she shifts worlds, perspectives and motivations…
"Longing for that which is to come and for that which we've left behind…"
"Like a vertigo we can’t help enjoying."
"Nothing is not lifted by this green."