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…to be alienated in one's own country, in one's own hometown, among one's kin and peers, was problematic, but nothing could be more natural than to be alienated in a foreign country, and so there I had at last naturalized my estrangement. This may be one of the underap-preciated pleasures of travel: of being at last legitimately lost and confused.
— Mar 25, 2024 01:44AM
Jen R.
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Though possessing ancient origins may, for the sedentary scholars of Travellers, confer greater legitimacy on them, it is apparently of less interest to the subjects themselves. The authenticity of origins, the historical basis for identity, may not be their method.
second last essay, Travellers, about Ireland’s indigenous nomadic people
— Mar 24, 2024 09:13AM
second last essay, Travellers, about Ireland’s indigenous nomadic people
Jen R.
is 64% done
Ireland fractures the unity of Europe, the notion of whiteness, the Atlantic divide, and from it the cracks in the citadels of culture can be seen too. Spenser and Sidney, the poets of the pastoral, become the founders of an antipastoral, and the shadow of their political lives lies across their artistic merit.
Essay/chapter 10
— Mar 16, 2024 08:00AM
Essay/chapter 10
Jen R.
is 57% done
Or perhaps what is most peculiar… the English poetry of that time celebrates the pastoral. Most literally, the pastoral is about pastures… shepherds tending their flocks… In the pastoral genre lies the origin of the modern aesthetic appreciation of landscape.
Theoretically, then, a country of wandering poets and pastoralists should have enchanted the English rather than appalled them.
Essay/chapter 10
— Mar 16, 2024 07:54AM
Theoretically, then, a country of wandering poets and pastoralists should have enchanted the English rather than appalled them.
Essay/chapter 10
Jen R.
is 53% done
There's almost a ritual quality about weather talk; it may be that paying homage to its existence is how strangers acknowledge their common existence and vulnerability under the same unfathomable sky.
from “Articles of Faith”
— Mar 13, 2024 12:22PM
from “Articles of Faith”
