Status Updates From A Field Guide to Getting Lost

جستار قالبی از نوشتن که در عین اینکه به نظر می‌رسد همه از پسش بر می‌آیند دشوار است. درست مثل ماهی‌ای که هر آن ممکن از دست لیز بخورد. ولی تا آخر جستار اول «درها را باز کن» این ربکا سولنیت عجب چیزی بود! به به

جستار قالبی از نوشتن که در عین اینکه به نظر می‌رسد همه از پسش بر می‌آیند دشوار است. درست مثل ماهی‌ای که هر آن ممکن از دست لیز بخورد. ولی تا آخر جستار اول «درها را باز کن» این ربکا سولنیت عجب چیزی بود! به به

...یک باره فهمید خصیصهٔ انسان کامیاب _خاصه در ادبیات_ چیست... این خصیصه همان ظرفیت تحمل عدم قطعیت است. بدین معنا که انسان بتواند در شبهه، رازآلودگی و شک و تردید بماند، بدون آنکه بخواهد بی‌محابا در پی حقیقت و عقلانیت باشد.

همیشه طوری از کوهنوری حرف می زنند انگار فتح قله معادل پیروزیست اما بالاتر که می روی جهان بزرگ تر می‌شود و تو خودت رو در برابر آن کوچک تر حس می کنی، متأثر و رها می شوی از این‌که چقدر فضا اطرافت هست، چقدر چا برای پرسه زدن، چقدر ناشناخته

4 pages read in 6 min, via @leioapp (http://leio.co).

Los ensayos, diarios y poemas los degusto de a poquito.

ژاپنی‌ها رسمی باستانی دارند به نام کینتزوگی که در آن ظروف شکسته را در عوض دور انداختن بند می‌زنند و ظرفی با شمایل جدید می‌سازند تا ردّ گذشته را بشود در آن دید و ستود. معتقدند تاریخچه‌ی هرچیز بخشی جدانشدنی از آن و قابل احترام است.

"هر چیزی ترک دارد;
و از همان‌ جاست که نور
به درون می‌تابد"

I'm annotating this while reading and I find myself underlining so many sentences. It's so good!

It’s lovely to be reacquainted with Rebecca Solnit’s writing again.

"En los sueños no se pierde nada. Las casas de la infancia, los muertos, los juguetes que habían desaparecido: todo aparece con una nitidez que la mente es incapaz de alcanzar en la vigilia".

This book is so enchanting, I want it to last forever

There is much talk of death and horrible things happened to people. I haven’t figured out why she has included these stories. Also, there are a lot of quotes from people (many whom have killed themselves). These parts seem like a school paper where the author is trying to find sources to back up her beliefs. The book so far has no flow and is making me regret ever picking up this book.

I am so lost already. So I guess mission accomplished. The writer flits from one subject to another loosely stringing them together at the end. The sentences are long (I counted one with 54 words), and difficult to follow.

"worry is a way to pretend that you have special knowledge or control over what you don't and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown."

so good.

“you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory”

"a city is built to resemble a conscious mind, a network that can calculate, administrate and manufacture. Ruins become the unconscious of a city, its memory, unknown, darkness, lost lands and in this truly brings it to life."

currently reading the chapter ‘Blue of Distance’ while having just finished Bluets by Maggie Nelson and it’s so interesting to contrast how these two women write about the color and it’s psychology and physicality

Random chance of progress match

"Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t—and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown."

"Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t—and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown."

"Heartbreak is a little like falling in love, in the way it charges everything with a kind of incandescence, as though the beloved has stepped away and your gaze now rests with all the same intensity on all the items of the view that close-up person blocked."

i could recognize this woman’s writing anywhere. plus, she always a really good citation/reference game.

“to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery”

“the self only exists in reference to the rest of the world”

"the mind too can be imagined as a landscape, but only the minds of sages might resemble the short-grass prairie..The rest of us have cavers, glaciers, torrential rivers, heavy fogs, chasms that open up underfoot, even maurading wildlife bearing names."

'The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with years of travel,'

Absolutely promising. Hoping for a bit less quotes and more flow in the rest of the book but I really like how it started anyway!

la visión platónica con trasfondo trascendente-religioso me deprime, me aburre y me aleja de Solnit. Veremos.

En el caso de los artistas de cualquier tipo, sin duda es lo desconocido, esa idea, forma o historia que todavía no ha llegado, lo q hay q encontrar. La labor dd los artistas es abrir puertas y dejar entrar las prifecías, lo desconocido, lo extraño; es de ahí de donde proceden sus obras

El amor, la sabiduría, la gracia, la inspiración: ¿cómo emprender la búsqueda de cosas que, en cierto modo, tienen que ver con desplazar las fronteras del propio ser hacia territorios desconocidos, con convertirse en otra persona?

right off the bat with judaism. the opening sentence going by the way i'm jewish. i'll mention it before we continue to get it out of the way. is it a jewish book? maybe not. but i am captivated, i am invested, in less than ten words. dare i say the hottest and most effective way to start a book.