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Apricots

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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

Solnit, R. (2013). Apricots. In Solnit, R. The Faraway Nearby. Viking, pp. 1-16

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What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compases and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. [...]

—p.3 by Rebecca Solnit 7 years, 6 months ago

What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compases and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. [...]

—p.3 by Rebecca Solnit 7 years, 6 months ago
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[...] Scheherazade, like a working-class hero, seized control of the means of production and talked her way out.

just thought this was funny. referring to Scheherazade from 1001 nights

—p.4 by Rebecca Solnit 7 years, 6 months ago

[...] Scheherazade, like a working-class hero, seized control of the means of production and talked her way out.

just thought this was funny. referring to Scheherazade from 1001 nights

—p.4 by Rebecca Solnit 7 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen; pastoral / (adjective) relating to or typical of rural life / (adjective) idyllic

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the residential care facility with the bucolic name

—p.10 by Rebecca Solnit
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the residential care facility with the bucolic name

—p.10 by Rebecca Solnit
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7 years, 6 months ago
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[...] Fairy tales are children's stories not in who they were made for but in their focus on the early stages of life, when others have power over you and you have power over no one.

—p.14 by Rebecca Solnit 7 years, 6 months ago

[...] Fairy tales are children's stories not in who they were made for but in their focus on the early stages of life, when others have power over you and you have power over no one.

—p.14 by Rebecca Solnit 7 years, 6 months ago