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The penultimate & last chapter of #TheLivingMountain, 'The Senses' & 'Being', seem to me to flow together into a remarkable prose-poem that doesn't rise to a peak (for this would formally gainsay Nan's allegiance to exploration rather than conclusion)...
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![The penultimate & last chapter of #TheLivingMountain, 'The Senses' & 'Being', seem to me to flow together into a remarkable prose-poem that doesn't rise to a peak (for this would formally gainsay Nan's allegiance to exploration rather than conclusion)...[1/3] #CoReadingVirus](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVWAKM2WAAA17vi.jpg "The penultimate & last chapter of #TheLivingMountain, 'The Senses' & 'Being', seem to me to flow together into a remarkable prose-poem that doesn't rise to a peak (for this would formally gainsay Nan's allegiance to exploration rather than conclusion)...[1/3] #CoReadingVirus")
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...but that instead argues for a gorgeous, ongoing mutual plenishment & exchange of encounter: "The thing to be known grows with the knowing."
What are the phrases, propositions & images that most struck you in the course of these chapters' flow?
And more specifically...
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![...but that instead argues for a gorgeous, ongoing mutual plenishment & exchange of encounter: "The thing to be known grows with the knowing." What are the phrases, propositions & images that most struck you in the course of these chapters' flow? And more specifically...[2/3]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVWBWWWXQAAVeck.jpg "...but that instead argues for a gorgeous, ongoing mutual plenishment & exchange of encounter: \"The thing to be known grows with the knowing.\" What are the phrases, propositions & images that most struck you in the course of these chapters' flow? And more specifically...[2/3]")
What are the phrases, propositions & images that most struck you in the course of these chapters' flow?
And more specifically...
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...what do you understand (if that is not too acquisitive or conclusive a verb) by Nan's declaration that in the Cairngorms she has "walked out of the body & into the mountain", becoming "a manifestation of its total life, as is the starry saxifrage"?
[Photos by @robpetit]
![...what do you understand (if that is not too acquisitive or conclusive a verb) by Nan's declaration that in the Cairngorms she has "walked out of the body & into the mountain", becoming "a manifestation of its total life, as is the starry saxifrage"?[Photos by @robpetit]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVWCOEfXgAMD3Y6.jpg "...what do you understand (if that is not too acquisitive or conclusive a verb) by Nan's declaration that in the Cairngorms she has \"walked out of the body & into the mountain\", becoming \"a manifestation of its total life, as is the starry saxifrage\"?[Photos by @robpetit]")
[Photos by @robpetit]
