Carve a Name for Yourself (a woodwork teacher’s advice to a dyslexic child) Book words can resemble ghosts or be like pressed flowers – memorials to meadows lost down drains and under houses. Although print has much to teach us, letter shapes demand a solid base as when the characters are carved from blocks of linden wood – not pared down to petty stains all too flimsy on the page for anything but a passing glance from one who strains to read. Words spring from throat and hands clay and wedge, chisel and mallet. Hold that thought. Feel the power in your fingers and palms. Philip Burton