Language is far more dangerous, and vastly more flexible and provocative than we ordinarily pretend. But to see this we need a chance to create and enter contexts where this is obvious. Dreaming. Poetics. Wordplay, and novel constellates of inner structure in unexpected contexts are all ways we can bend the language (and our ways of seeing) into forms that not only produce uncommon insight, they offer the possibility of -new modes of memory and interacting with it- which must almost always precede any sudden developmental leap relating to representational cognition. It begins with uncommon modes of play… for uncommon purposes not easily co-opted by the cultural forces ordinarily involved in governing our use and relationships with language, knowledge, and relation itself.