Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A sense of place is very important in writing.
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.