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Berkeley mentioned!!!….. and of course it’s for two edgy artist type professors shunned by the magick field who then do a double suicide and now reign over a vicious pack of “bone dogs” in hell LOL. Feels like mad libs and i love it

“It has been said that people of the modern euros suffer a great sadness, a ‘species loneliness’—estrangement from the rest of Creation. We have built this isolation with our fear, with our arrogance, and with our homes brightly lit against the night. For a moment as we walked this road, those barriers dissolved and we began to relieve the loneliness and know each other again” (358). On salamander crossings

“Language, too, forces the air from the lungs”

Windigo monsters in Anishinaabe legend, who aren’t born, but created, who suffers an eternal hunger, who takes humans with it with a bite

Her analysis of street safety / density / trust…..wow

This one’s been a long time coming!!! Excited :)

“Ceremony focused attention so that attention becomes intention” (249)

The Honorable Harvest; loved the description of rice harvesting in the Great Lakes and its “inefficiency,” only catching less than half of the rice into canoes and the remaining scattering into the water

“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them” (183)