reencountering

I think there are benefits to my continually rereading my notes and reencountering my sources; for one thing, I don't retain information particularly well, especially when that information isn't immediately useful and only becomes so as a project develops.

Archive 2008-10-01

I think there are benefits to my continually rereading my notes and reencountering my sources; for one thing, I don't retain information particularly well, especially when that information isn't immediately useful and only becomes so as a project develops.

Ferule & Fescue

One of the reasons I rarely go to the movies anymore is that I hate the feeling of leaving the theater and reencountering reality.

Blogging, not slogging.

And instead of going to see Roberta as usual, he decided as before on first reencountering her, to walk a bit, then return to his room, and retire early.

An American Tragedy

Newly evolved species went from Kauai to Oahu, from Oahu to Maui, from Maui to everywhere, reencountering their own close but now reproductively incompatible relatives.

The Song of The Dodo

Newly evolved species went from Kauai to Oahu, from Oahu to Maui, from Maui to everywhere, reencountering their own close but now reproductively incompatible relatives.

The Song of The Dodo

Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.

The Urth of the New Sun

As well, there has been the constant, unexpected joy of reencountering all those things I grew up with but had largely forgotten: baseball on the radio, the deeply satisfying whoing-bang slam of a screen door in summer, insects that glow, sudden run-for-your-life thunderstorms, really big snowfalls, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July, the smell of a skunk from just the distance that you have to sniff the air quizzically and say: "Is that a skunk?",

I'm A Stranger Here Myself