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And so it is with Woolf’s own writing, which corresponds precisely to her description of the nature of words. They have, she says, a “need of change . . . because the truth they try to catch is many-sided, and they convey it by being themselves many-sided, flashing this way, then that.”

Fish, Stanley. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (p. 80). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

That is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and
manipulated.

Fish, Stanley. How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (p. 7). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.