Seized by a sudden truth I started up at 4 a.m. The word grip pronounced “gripe” is applied only to towns, cities and habitations; the word gripe pronounced “grip” can be used of human beings. In my dream I saw the two parts of this truth connected by a three-mile long rope of women’s hair. And just at that moment all the questions of male and female soul murder, which were to be answered as soon as I pulled on the rope, broke away and fell in a chunk back down the rocky chasm where I had been asleep. We are the half and half again, we are the language stump.