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"And now I feel all these events from a week in the Prospect mountains, and the narrative pattern they cast like a shadow, or like ripples in sand, have been filed somewhere in the regions of the brain near to where the neurons and synapses first lit and flexed their tiny, metaphoric muscles from that childhood reading. In recent years scientists have emphasized how changing and dynamic is the human brain, shaped and structured by both thoughts and experience. The quest for understanding, the peripheral vision we gain from gazing where we do, becomes a kind of topography in our own heads contours, gray matter under bone and skin and hair." In Prospect , her wise collection of essays, Elizabeth Dodd widens her gaze to peer at the world through a myriad of lensesnatural history, local history, science, anthropology, philosophy, and literature. Offering cultural commentary and personal revelation, she invites the reader on a journey into the heart of lifethe life of places, the life of the individual, the life of a culture. It is a journey whose map is continuously being formed out of the matter of the moment. For Dodd, the pins on the map outlining the way are made up of elm trees an

Author

Elizabeth Caroline Dodd

Publisher

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874807448

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities