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Flight

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more on Iceland; the difference between labyrinth and maze (which, it seems, people don't really care about these days); empathy

Solnit, R. (2013). Flight. In Solnit, R. The Faraway Nearby. Viking, pp. 179-196

(noun) a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money) / (noun) severe poverty / (noun) extreme and often niggardly frugality

189

But it was wordless and so had the penurious privilege of visual art, of being able to invoke many meanings without being pinned down by the specificities of words.

—p.189 by Rebecca Solnit
notable
6 years, 10 months ago

But it was wordless and so had the penurious privilege of visual art, of being able to invoke many meanings without being pinned down by the specificities of words.

—p.189 by Rebecca Solnit
notable
6 years, 10 months ago
206

[...] one of the unmentionable facts of everyday life is that we're all made of meat, as I remember when I walk alone, regularly, in the territory of mountain lions. The carnivorous Inuit sometimes say, "The great peril of our existence lies in the fact that our diet consists entirely of souls," which doesn't lessen the trauma of anthropophagy, of eating human flesh, but deepens that of everyday consuption of other sentient beings.

—p.206 by Rebecca Solnit 6 years, 10 months ago

[...] one of the unmentionable facts of everyday life is that we're all made of meat, as I remember when I walk alone, regularly, in the territory of mountain lions. The carnivorous Inuit sometimes say, "The great peril of our existence lies in the fact that our diet consists entirely of souls," which doesn't lessen the trauma of anthropophagy, of eating human flesh, but deepens that of everyday consuption of other sentient beings.

—p.206 by Rebecca Solnit 6 years, 10 months ago