-
The cocker spaniel: Why?
-
Why choose that as what the little boy thinks of when he looks
-
at that floppy volume?
-
It's a moment when being trained to classify and to categorize causes
-
him to see the source of that linguistic precision,
-
the book of Shakespeare, in very demeaning terms, or
-
reductive terms or-- I'm not getting quite the precise
-
word I want--in deflating terms.
-
So that, instead of grandeur, the book of Shakespeare becomes the
-
source for the names of dogs.
-
And the way the child's imagination blends grandeur and the
-
ordinary, I think, gives us Coleman,