I found that language became a poultice to the wounds incurred by the death of my father.

poultice (n) : a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions – Nick Cave’s Love Song Lecture

In that period, Ramis said, the dominant structural and narrative perspectives were of ”the proscenium. It was all about the composition of the frame. Nature didn’t enter the picture.”

proscenium (n) : 1 a : the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater b : the part of a modern stage in front of the curtain c : the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium and provides the arch that frames it; 2 foreground – Meta-fiction films look at world in fresh ways