“When a very small child sees something that spins and is circular… it is rarely having the same experience as an adult. It is common for very small children to associate this experience with its most familiar referent in their experiential lexicon, and that referent is missing from adult lexicons entirely. When they see it, something like a trance-like state may ensue, and they may become confused, trying to understand how what they remember is being represented in this physical process before them.

I cannot explain exactly what it is that they may, deep within the wordless depths of their origins, remember, but it is approximately a ‘transcendental learning-friend who is (r): a wheel made of rods that spin’ and (a): ‘a way of seeing’ and who is also (y): ‘a way of travel’ that only works ‘when we are together as one’. The identity of this companion is also approximately commensurate with the term ‘spokesperson’ in a way that inducts the pun of a spinning rod into linguistic figure, but adds metaphoric dimensionality otherwise inaccessible to ordinary minds.

Do you know of any adult who has such an experiential lexical referent? Is there a word … pardon me… is there even a -category- that such a referent fits into? No? I thought not.

And this is, in part, why. ‘a little child shall lead them’.”

— an anonymous informant