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It is striking to see how much information dump there actually is in fantasy novels like these.

It is interesting to experience how a novel works differently than a good streaming series. For Game of Thrones they both work well, but in different ways.

"Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment."

"We have come to forget that our minds are shaped by the bodily experience of being in the world - its spaces, textures, sounds, smells and habits - as well as by genetic traits we inherit and ideologies we absorb. We are literally 'losing touch', becoming disembodied, more than in any historical period before us."

"It is true that once a landscape goes undescribed and therefore unregarded, it becomes more vulnerable to unwise use or improper action." (p. 27)

The next morning
this loon, speckled
and iridescent and with a plan
to fly home
to some hidden lake,
was dead in the shore.
I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.

"Lead"