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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like her history of walking, Solnit provides a pleasing drift through a number of topics relating to being lost, getting lost, or dealing with loss.  These are drifts are filtered through her own listless life and occasionally lead to some jewel-like insights like this one, which pops up in a discussion of Yves Klein's famous photograph Leap into the Void:  &quot;Movies are made out of darkness as well as light; it is the surprisingly brief intervals of darkness between each luminous still image that makes it possible to assemble the many images into one moving picture. Without darkness, there would only be a blur, which is to say that a full length movie consists of half an hour or and hour of pure darkness that goes unseen.  If you could add up all the darkness, you would find the audience in the theater gazing together at a deep imaginative night.  It is the terra incognita of film, the dark content of every map.&quot; (p.175-6)  The book is peppered with insights like these that showcase her ability to slice an otherwise ordinary phenomena on a new bias.  This ability enables her to consistently bring her discussion of getting lost into new territory, the terra incognita that she reveals as an unknown aspect or unseen angle providing a well from which fresh insights and new productions can be drawn .  This terra incognita becomes a focal point for an otherwise lose and rambling book.]]></body>
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