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The first time I got drunk was on Elijah’s wine.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James

The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen

October 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A Field Guide to Getting Lost – 4/5 Stars I wonder about whether this book could be translated as so much of the languaging that happens here (to borrow from Heidegger, someone else whose writing is quite difficult to translate) involves associative and impressionistic wandering often based in a kind of almost punning. There’s a moment late in the book, to spoil a great point, about how in English to be “lost” can happen in both time and space. And that doubling there really speaks […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: a field guide to getting lost, pd james, Rebecca Solnit, the year 1000, Valerie Hansen

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:576 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: a field guide to getting lost, pd james, Rebecca Solnit, the year 1000, Valerie Hansen ·
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