Rebecca Solnit affirms this with (from a passage that helped us conclude the evening): “it takes a long exposure, generally, for something to make an impression. Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A. As a librarian, it was an exciting experience to see how dialoguing and questioning contribute to the meeting of many minds around the central themes of the book, and how much more revealing a subject can be when we stay there to inquire. Like rivers, one never steps into the same book twice. With her unparalleled intellectual elegance and poetic prose, Rebecca Solnit tells the story of that transformation in River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West ( public library ).

The terrain included: memory and interpretation identity and the recreation of identity Chinese landscape painting rushing water as a subject and metaphor the Buddhist idea of focal attention and global awareness Spiritualists and the Ghost Dance as a technology the book as a literary panorama the book as an “inverted biography ” and finally, to deep attention and “slow seeing.” Much like the book itself, Book Club readers were extremely curious with far-ranging insights, and in the hour together we carved out a unique landscape upon which we roamed. In 1860, Muybridge suffered a serious head injury in a stage coach accident.

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