Flower power
Aug 26, 2022
3 minutes
By PD Smith
In Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 movie Arrival the US army asks an expert in linguistics to decipher the complex language of the seven-limbed aliens who have landed on Earth. It’s a memorable and moving attempt to portray the immense challenges involved in bridging the gulf of mutual incomprehension between two completely different species.
I thought of Arrival while reading Paco Calvo’s remarkable book, the result of “two decades of passionate exploration into
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