Cedar Flat

Symbols, language, mathematics: they all create worlds – worlds upon worlds – but is this world we find ourselves in amongst them?

There are different stories; I’m sure a lot of wrong was done on both sides if you knew the truth of it. I’m just glad we’ve gone past that sort of thing where you keep having reprisals on one side and payback on the other. I think – I hope – most of us these days are reconciled to living together.’

People didn’t think enough about the sound of names: the name and the thing should go together. The word ‘woman’ now – a pout, a kiss and a smile – a sort of natural history of sexual relations perfectly wrapped up in two syllables.