Heaven (and Hell) to a Tortured Mind

“The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas” by Nathaniel Dance-Holland

It’s hard to overstate how central the particular language we speak is to the way we think. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, thoughts accumulate and are informed by observations, moods and conversations, all of which are broken down and made sense of by the words we attach to them. There’s always something strange with coming to terms with this process because although our linguistic experience may provide us with a…