Books

My new bus book is Space in Language and Cognition, by Stephen Levinson. It's a discussion of the ways different languages talk about location and direction, and - though I haven't gotten very far - I think it has some unsettling implications. I think, once I've finished, I might write a couple of posts about it - one to describe the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and one to discuss how Levinson's work fits into that.

Meanwhile, I'm still reading McKillip. I've finished The Tower at Stony Wood and Winter Rose, and continued on to The Book of Atrix Wolfe. A few comments on the former two, with some spoilers, follow.

( Rose )

( Tower )