“I am of a mind to notice that our ceremonies, no matter what their precise origins, will tend to conserve evidence of the originary circumstances and understandings enjoyed where they began. Language is such a ceremony; and the histories and original implications of the letters comprise an astonishing insight about the nature of language itself; and, inversely… of the dreaming mind; for it was involved in their derivation.

So when I see a sleigh, or the gear appropriate to riding a horse — or even an automobile, like the implications behind a gesture of speech that indicate its motives and perhaps what it is hiding, I have a sense for the deep meaningfulness of our forms and narratives—however distorted or superficial they may appear. Our pencils and pens, forks and knives—everything we make has some domain of likeness with the fundamental nature of … the Universe, Creation, however we like to imagine the nature of existence.”