This is what literature offers: a language powerful enough to say how it is. (Jeannette Winterson) If you’ve ever helped someone learn – a co-worker in the next cubicle, a grandchild in your kitchen, the neighbor kid across the fence – you’re familiar with the wonderous “Oh, now I see!” moment. When that light appears, …
That’s one good story, that one. (Thomas King, from his work of the same name) It began with five students who sat on the floor outside my classroom every morning, waiting for me to unlock the door. George*, a storyteller in his forties with a cigarette-roughened laugh, was usually entertaining Cheyenne and Melissa, who giggled …
Studies of elevator behaviour are well-known: everyone faces the doors, looking up at the floor indicator or the side panel buttons. People pull in their elbows or clasp their hands in front of them, talking little, if at all. If you were an undergraduate sociology student, you may have been asked to interrupt those behavioral …
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