The thing turned towards you.

"Their word for polar bear is tara-i-tua-luk,'he who is without shadow' (though the polar bear is also

called 'the eternal vagabond'.

There is a sort of poetry of the concrete in their speech that is very moving. Thus, mi-kse, the

word for 'reality/ is literally translatable as 'the thing turned towards you.'"




- Gontran De Poncins on Inuit languages in 'Kabloona'.