Outside the Home Depot store, a green and fuschia sea of little boxes of geraniums, impatiens, and pansies are surrounded by garden tools — manure forks, grass edgers, cultivators, and thatching rakes.

My beautiful sister Marveen. You are my babygirl. I didn't know what I had been missing until you appeared in my life.

Toposophy is a perspective, allied to what Tim Ingold calls the dwelling perspective, which treats people as organisms immersed in their lifeworlds, as opposed to what he calls the building perspective, which supposes that “people inhabit a world – of culture or society – to which form and meaning have already been attached.

The field, then, is open to re-examination, and the recent phenomenon of conlanging is evidence that the art of inventing languages is neither lunatic nor infantile.