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Near the very end of her book, Solnit tells a story of having a dream one night of carrying a leaking tortoise around her childhood bedroom. Her third recognition is that these aren’t negative at all. Darkness is part of the texture of light. It has to do with a recognition that, first, none of these is avoidable, and that, second, each is the yin to a yang of some seemingly positive aspect of human existence.įor instance, you can’t have heartbreak without having had love. The deep place where life is richest, fullest. Solnit looks deeply into how various people and peoples have faced all of these seemingly negative aspects of existence and how she has faced them in her own history.Īnd she finds in them the deepest life. Rebecca Solnit’s 2005 A Field Guide to Getting Lost is a celebration of much that is disdained and feared by mainstream American society:ĭoes that list give you nightmares? Then, A Field Guide to Getting Lost is not for you.
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