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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
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1996
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Becoming Animal
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2010
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The Rough Guide to India
by David Abram, Rough Guides, Devdan Sen 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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2001
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The Rough Guide to South India
by David Abram, Mike Ford, Nick Edwards 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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2004
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The Rough Guide to Kerala
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2007
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The Rough Guide to Goa
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2003
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The Rough Guide to France
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2009
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The Rough Guide to Corsica
by David Abram, Rough Guides 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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2000
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England: The Rough Guide
by David Abram, Jules Brown, Robert Andrews 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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1998
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Scotland: The Rough Guide (Scotland, 2nd Ed)
by David Abram, Rob Humphreys, Alastair Hamilton 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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“...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.”
― David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
― David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin. To make sense is to release the body from the constraints imposed by outworn ways of speaking, and hence to renew and rejuvenate one's felt awareness of the world. It is to make the senses wake up to where they are.”
― David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
― David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth- our larger body- to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours (the tensions and terrors of our individual days), stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles. We give ourselves over to the influence of the breathing earth. Sleep is the shadow of the earth as it seeps into our skin and spreads throughout our limbs, dissolving our individual will into the thousand and one selves that compose it- cells, tissues, and organs taking their prime directives now from gravity and the wind- as residual bits of sunlight, caught in the long tangle of nerves, wander the drifting landscape of our earth-borne bodies like deer moving across the forested valleys.”
― David Abram, Becoming Animal
― David Abram, Becoming Animal
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