In a riddle what the words mean does not displace how they sound until the riddle is solved. Until the riddle is solved, it could mean anything – everything. Only after it is solved does meaning settle into being in the words: a strange transformation, something like the one this riddle describes: water becoming bone.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
A riddling ancestry …
… Widespeak - Sydney Review of Books — Waiting for the Past by Les Murray. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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