I love this quote from Ursula LeGuin, in The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (149:1996):
‘it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you’.
LeGuin is tal...