We have all survived our English classes  --  elementary, middle, high school. . . some  of us college.  Many taught by the best intentioned people, teachers we ever had.  Because they knew if we could not communicate, could not write clearly we’d encounter problems from our relationships to our employment. And yet there were two things not taught. These things I learned years after my comp classes but from my comp prof, Art Seamans, who wrestled with and continues to wrestle with the Poseidon nature of language.  He ultimately forced the two blessings which follow.