At some stage in your university degree I hope you learn that what you think you mean when you say something, versus how people intend what you mean, is open, multiple, and always negotiated. There is no way I can so saturate what I say or write with context that I can guarantee how it will be interpreted. This is the deep, unsettling, play of language and meaning (which begins theoretically with de Sausurre’s elaboration of the sign, the syntagmatic and paradigmatic, and langue and parole).

This is a rich, unexpected, surprising, intriguing, unintended (by me) and very productive reading of the boat sketch. Read it.