doing something different with language
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An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 318-322, read by Steph.
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… Read more...“A lot of evidence suggests that group loyalty interferes with reason.”
Maidenhair and Watchman trade smirks, like he’s just told them that science has proven that
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An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 232-238, read by Steph.
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… Read more...Four years at Fortuna College come down to one afternoon: Adam in his spot in the front row, Daniels Auditorium. Professor Rubin Rabinowski at the podium—Affect and
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A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 124.
… Read more...It’s a miracle,” she tells her students, photosynthesis: a feat of chemical engineering underpinning creation’s entire cathedral. All the razzmatazz of life on Earth is a free-rider on that
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A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 114-115
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… Read more...In this way, acorn animism turned bit by bit into its offspring, botany. She becomes her father’s star and only pupil for the simple reason that she alone, of
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A reading from The Overstory, by Richard Powers. 2018, p.86-87.
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… Read more...He wants to keep heading west. Trouble is, the only strip still west of him feels like going east again. And yet he’s got his used but solid F100,
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A reading from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 2013, p. 274-275.
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… Read more...Umbilicaria is often the victim of its own success. Accumulation is its undoing. Slowly, slowly, the lichens build up
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An excerpt from MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood, p.33, read by Steph.
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“Physical objects have shacked their tethers; mine, yours, his, hers, and they’ve gone wandering off on their own. It’s like the aftermath of those riots they used to show … Read more...
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“You can’t listen to the Thanksgiving Address without feeling wealthy. And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that … Read more...
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“When my daughters remember our sugaring adventure now, they roll their eyes and groan, ‘That was I much work!’ They remember hauling branches to feed the fire and slopping sap on their jackets as they carried heavy buckets. They tease … Read more...