“:Paintings are easy to see," he said after a moment. "Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be discovered, deep in their pages, deciphered, translated, read. Words are symbols to be encoded, their letters… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
“Soon after leaving the bend by the ford, the left and right banks broke up into a system of marshy islands. "That's Chalk Island on the right," Wistan had told him. Except that in Anglo-Saxon, in which "island" was rendered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
