Some explanatory scenarios:
1. Having an illiterate father encourages the habit of reading.
2. An illiterate father encourages the habit of reading.
3. A literate mother encourages the habit of reading, in light of the limits reached by the illiterate father.
4. A blacksmith works with words. Words and phrases fly from the anvil as the hammer hits the soft red steel: “hammer and tongs,” “strike while the iron is hot,” “mind-forged manacles.”
Allan Sekula, “Polonia and Other Fables 2007–2009,” in Polonia and Other Fables (Chicago and Warsaw: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and Zachęta National Gallery of Art, 2009), 60.