Symbols, Stand-ins and Euphemisms: The Impossibility of Whole Truths
By Phin Jennings
‘Pearl felt that she knew all the terrible words but none of their substitutes. Substitutions were what made civilised conversation possible. Whenever Pearl attempted civilised conversation, it sounded like gibberish. She could never find the appropriate euphemisms.’
- Joy Williams, The Changeling1
‘The Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose…