2/2: wicawa

Chris told me today that in the language of the Winnebago the word for a wild cat is pronounced in the same way as the word for squash. Are they in fact the same word, identifying some deep underlying similarity between panthers and pumpkins--or are they homophones, sounding identical but only accidentally? No one knows. I think I'm in such a state of mind tonight that the uncertainty of this question seems to me to encapsulate the human condition (but in a good way).