Yesterday I happened to catch Rebecca Solnit discussing her book Paradise Built in Hell on WNYC, and was so glad to hear this amazing woman's views of the transformative powers of the catastrophe. Sometimes it takes something like that to let life enter the scene. She used the phrase "shaken awake," which I have to say got my attention. Couldn't help thinking of Hafiz's Tired of Speaking Sweetly and of Kvond, his Spinoza and the Chaocomplex, not to mention the Walter Otto quote I came across recently.
BTW, another of her books, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, sounds fairly tempting.
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