Crafting with Ursula : Isaac Yuen on Writing Nature & Nature Writing
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Magic of the Island of Roke
Andi picked this scene for a few reasons. The the knowledge of magic from the island of roke, versus the local, empirical knowledge acquired through living and embodied life. And then you're talking about a not in opposition to each other, but say, indigenous knowledge passed down through generations,. through interaction an embodied way with the land verse is the more abstract, a abstracted knowledge of of science. I mean, the really, i mean, there's this transmutation of the human into the non human. No matter what, we all are going to become earth again.
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