Sea of Hooks

A boy grew up beside a sea of hooks and he learned to swim in that sea and to notice the hooks as they rose and fell and twisted in the tides…

What if you saw the world—with all its signs and signals, its schedules and habits and goals, the matrix of friends, the unspoken codes of conduct—emptied of ordinary meaning?

Imagine that the debris collected from the streets of your childhood spoke more urgently to you, with messages and wonders that compelled you to enter another world, a world wh...