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I began to experience a strong sensation that my body was a thing. Suddenly I felt very strongly that I had no more in common with my own body than with the gray walls of the bathroom.
“The choir are screaming now, fugue-permutations veering and careening to the outer limits of the field where any ratio of intervals or pitches might hold sway: tonics swapping with subdominants within the space of single notes that seem to play out in three octaves all at once, false entries, inversions, retrogrades and diminutions running riot through all keys -- until, suddenly, these fall away, like clouds”
― The Making of Incarnation
― The Making of Incarnation
“It is where I am, where many of us probably feel that we are: somewhere where the boundary between places has broken. The reason this is not an annihilating recognition is because the place where the boundary has broken is also a place of refracting light, of impossible angles, of beautiful breathing presences gathering, of music becoming language becoming lines becoming dance, the dance of the angles and light of spaces, and all of this changing all the time that there is too much to say about it, too much to see to want to stop seeing.”
― Houses of Ravicka
― Houses of Ravicka
“Edwin’s gaze drifted away from the man’s face, to the mild decrepitude of the September garden. The salvias were bare now, for the most part, brown stalks and dried leaves, a few last blooms wisping blue and violet in the failing light. He was struck by an understanding of what his life could be from this moment: he could live here quietly, and care for the garden, and that might eventually be enough.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“Only the accountability of an informed citizenry and the intractability of a just rule of law can thwart the nihilism of imperial elites -- here or anywhere else.”
― Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
― Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
“The logical conclusion of the development of wildlife corridors and protected areas -- even mobile ones -- is that there are places which must be left to non-humans, even in a more-than-human world.
This is not a new suggestion. It goes back at least to the beginning of the twentieth century in Western culture, to the founding of National Parks in Europe and America, and it is intrinsic to non-Western conceptions of our place among the species of the planet. But there is growing awareness that it is now more urgent and must be much more extensive than a few scattered parks and sanctuaries. Indeed, there is a strong scientific and moral case that it should comprise at least half the entire Earth.”
― Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
This is not a new suggestion. It goes back at least to the beginning of the twentieth century in Western culture, to the founding of National Parks in Europe and America, and it is intrinsic to non-Western conceptions of our place among the species of the planet. But there is growing awareness that it is now more urgent and must be much more extensive than a few scattered parks and sanctuaries. Indeed, there is a strong scientific and moral case that it should comprise at least half the entire Earth.”
― Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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