When I play an instrument it is an essay, an attempt. So, too, when I compose music, or write or speak. It is interesting to carefully observe the process whereby the vague sort of urge that may underlie creative action becomes the result; particularly in the ordinary sense of the act of speaking with another human person. The peculiarities involved in, for example, generating a sentence, are shrouded in a mystery as deep as any we may pursue. Yet many of its recesses are accessible to us… if we will begin a careful and authentic exploration…