At last Tauwhare lifted his finger and described a circle in the air. When his fingertip returned to the place from which he had begun, he jabbed his finger, sharply, to mark the place of return. But one cannot mark a place upon a circle, he thought: to mark a place upon a circle is to break it, so that it is not a circle any longer. “Understand it like this,” he said, regretting that he had to speak the words in English, and approximate the noun. “Around. And then back again, beginning.”
