(noun) a complete or impressive collection of thi…
The Faraway Nearby
by
Rebecca Solnit
May 12, 2017 - May 13, 2017
(read/essay-collections)
Solnit, R. (2013). The Faraway Nearby. Viking.
p.230
panoply »
p.189
penury »
(noun) a cramping and oppressive lack of resource…
p.166
ebullience »
(noun) the quality of lively or enthusiastic expr…
p.163
campesino »
A tenant farmer or farm worker in Latin America
p.153
extirpate »
(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) t…
p.206
[...] one of the unmentionable facts of everyday …
p.152
I've met privileged young people who were shocked…
p.128
Others' woes can be used as reproaches and someti…
p.121
Sometimes to accept is also a gift. The anthropol…
p.112
The Marxist revolutions of the past assumed a sim…
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Apricots
her mother has to move out of her house due to dementia or something and so the author is saddled with the house and its accompanying apricot tree
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Apricots
her mother has to move out of her house due to dementia or something and so the author is saddled with the house and its accompanying apricot tree
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Mirrors
on her complex, weirdly competitive relationship with her mother
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Ice
about Frankenstein and the writing thereof
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55
Flight
about her personal relationship with reading and writing, and how she came to visit Iceland
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Flight
about her personal relationship with reading and writing, and how she came to visit Iceland
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Breath
about the Marquis de Sade, vanitas paintings, and preserving apricots as a metaphor for preserving beauty
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Breath
about the Marquis de Sade, vanitas paintings, and preserving apricots as a metaphor for preserving beauty
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Wound
probaby the most interesting chapter: about Che Guevara's early life, when he was a medical student and visiting his friend Alberto Granado , who was working in a leprosy hospital in Argentina; soon after, they started traveling around South America, visiting leprosariums and trying to help people when possible. also some thoughts on pain and its function as a definer of self (you consist of what you can feel). she also talks about Buddhism and her own illness (potential breast cancer, for which she needs surgery)
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Wound
probaby the most interesting chapter: about Che Guevara's early life, when he was a medical student and visiting his friend Alberto Granado , who was working in a leprosy hospital in Argentina; soon after, they started traveling around South America, visiting leprosariums and trying to help people when possible. also some thoughts on pain and its function as a definer of self (you consist of what you can feel). she also talks about Buddhism and her own illness (potential breast cancer, for which she needs surgery)
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Knot
on gifts, and her friend who recently died of cancer, and continuing the story of her own medical procedures
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Knot
on gifts, and her friend who recently died of cancer, and continuing the story of her own medical procedures
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Unwound
the story of the Buddha, and a photographer of the Arctic
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Breath
describing Iceland
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Flight
more on Iceland; the difference between labyrinth and maze (which, it seems, people don't really care about these days); empathy
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Flight
more on Iceland; the difference between labyrinth and maze (which, it seems, people don't really care about these days); empathy
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Ice
about a book called Arctic Adventure, detailing how Peter Freuchen met a woman named Atagutaluk who had to eat her family to ward off starvation
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Ice
about a book called Arctic Adventure, detailing how Peter Freuchen met a woman named Atagutaluk who had to eat her family to ward off starvation
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Mirrors
about her mother again, and how the author is finally able to forgive her
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Apricots
about a baby who fell down a well and other near-death experiences; on her trip through the Grand Canyon
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Apricots
about a baby who fell down a well and other near-death experiences; on her trip through the Grand Canyon
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