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Abode: Ruins, Near Or Faraway (cont.)

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Ruins, Near Or Faraway (cont.)
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. A Way In
  3. Ruins, Near Or Faraway
  4. Greenhouse, Grasshouse
  5. Cathedral
  6. Animal Structures
  7. You, Who Build And Are Built
  8. A Drowned Area
  9. Cave Complex Cave
  10. A Way Out
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. About the Author

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Adding distance is a dialogue in curses.

A ruin puts longing in the organs of the one who leaves it, or fear, or forgetting. The evacuee adds to the dark place names of the region, the areas where fungi eat through the dead, the empty rooms and collapsing vegetables. In time there is only linger, murdered, given as a kind of dust. This deposit is called urn; it sows yearning throughout the interior.

Runners jostle their innards, their nostalgia and their absences. Checking behind or turning back leaves parts of the viewer in the atmosphere. This landscape is called pyx; you become very small inside it.

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