“We’ll find the words for that”

“I myself am progressing in a life that is no longer mine, finding myself trapped in a body that is no longer mine, which illness (its tools and consequences) has rendered not only foreign but inadequate. The body is no longer an ally; it has become an obstacle, and it is from within it that I advance my vocabulary, slowly uncovering a variety of previously inaccessible scenes and actions. Between telling and showing, I understand a little more each day how ignorance is a powerful weapon. Childhood reinvigorates its grammar.”