Language isn’t Benjamin Lee Whorf’s prison, but it can guide ways of thinking, imagining, feeling, perceiving, experiencing (etc.). It isn’t a narrowing-down, but an enabler. What Edward Sapir refers to as ‘linguistic form’ does have some steer regarding ‘our orientation in the world’. Yet while Sapir was discussing differences in tongues, differences between languages, the fascinating question prompted by attention to form and style is what non-quotidian uses of words within a particular language make possible in the experiential, perceptual, and imaginative worlds of those reading and writing them. Word-choice can guide thoughts, opening new possibilities, restricting others. In this understanding of language, words aren’t representing, or channelling, or distilling; nor does even shaping quite capture it. Words are enabling, orienting, directing. And they continue these actions beyond the work. What is experienced during a text is also relevant outside it.