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Becoming a Ruin: Decomposing and Regrowing the Mythic with Sophie Strand

The Emerald

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Ego, the Ecology of a Story

Ego comes from the greek word ocos, for household or place to live. Ego encourages rootedness and curiosity about the ground below your own feet. Ico shows me that no character, no story, no song or poem should ever evaporate into abstraction. Is your te have a landscape and immunity? If some one mentions a bird, ask them what kind of a bird. You write a story about a character that lives through the countryside, make sure you know the name of every tree that shadows their plot line. Honor the texture of your nico system, enter into kinship with yo. And i'm just try ngd o be tender with how the narrative has to

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