I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

