The penultimate & last chapter of #TheLivingMountain, & #39;The Senses& #39; & & #39;Being& #39;, seem to me to flow together into a remarkable prose-poem that doesn& #39;t rise to a peak (for this would formally gainsay Nan& #39;s allegiance to exploration rather than conclusion)...
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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& #39; flow?
And more specifically...
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...what do you understand (if that is not too acquisitive or conclusive a verb) by Nan& #39;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"?

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