Part II

  Learning the

 Language

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language...
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience
but a defining framework for it.

- Benjamin Whorf, Thinking in Primitive Communities, 1964

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality,
and instead of thinking how things may be,
to see them as they really are.

- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Hester Lynch Piozzi's
Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, 1786