Walking on Water
Madeleine L'Engle
Writing a story is a way of naming something. Using the entire range of your vocabulary maintains your freedom and ability to call forth the ideas of things. The sharper the language, the closer it skims the surface of actual objects or feelings. Writers try to do this in all kinds of ways. Marianne Moore's pangolin, Robert Hass' blackberries, ...and novels, which embark on their lengthy voyages. Docked by a title.
Looking at a painting or hearing a piece of music can feel as though something in you is called forth and named.
Like Adam naming the animals. We can become known.
