Is There a Word for Everything?

One of the themes of the book has to do with words. I think there is a strong spiritual element to me that i guess is expressed most explicitly through, through the vantage point of henry. He's a child for whom he so desperately wants everything to mean thing. Its something that i really identify with, and especially can recall from childhood, the desire for things to make sense. At the same time, it's a terrible pitfall as a writer, because my actual experience is that life makes very little sense.