Im/placed: The value of conversation

Thursday, September 11, 2014

The value of conversation

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Im/placed

The title is a displacement of the word "emplaced." It seems to me there ought to be something active about our placement as human beings. We are not (or should not be) emplaced as an urn is placed in a niche. We are in place as agents. In some sense we place ourselves. In another we create the places we inhabit. In yet another the places we inhabit create us. Our relationship with place and space is complex and contradictory: hence, "Im/placed."

My writing - as all writing - plays the edge of fiction and nonfiction, truth and invention. Some postings are excerpts from The Names of Things, a novel, and are labeled as such. Postings under "The Folklorist" heading are snippets from a novel in process. Otherwise, the words here reflect day-to-day experience and reflection. In all cases it aims to get things right.

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

The value of conversation

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