Ranger1 Feb 2006

But surely that's the idea of the dream wife; she is not just a homey real-life icon, she is something different, something new. Just as spending a moment looking through shut eyelids can bring up images of the less-than-ordinary and the beautiful (fresh lava, stained glass etc.) The contrast of language is a mirror for this, and in the end it's the real-life language that wins.