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Nan Shepherd

“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain
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The Living Mountain The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
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