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Whose nerve did we just hit?

Updated: Feb 28, 2022

When connection really connects with the CNSystem.




Comparison:


‘We writers are the raw nerve of the universe. Our job is to go out and feel things for people, then to come back and tell them how it feels to be alive. Because they are numb. Because we have forgotten.’

Must look interesting on the job application!





Context:


In class, she [Ursula K. LeGuin] said, ‘We writers are the raw nerve of the universe.Our job is to go out and feel things for people, then to come back and tell them how it feels to be alive.Because they are numb.Because we have forgotten.’In class, she said, ‘We have forgotten our rituals.Out tribal practices.There is no more tribe.We don’t know how to tell our elders our dreams around the morning fire.There is no morning fire.We can’t receive insight from the mothers.’Then she terrorized us by bringing Toni Morrison into the room to meet us.



Urrea, Luis Alberto. “Tolfink was Here: On Ursula K. LeGuin and Me.” luisurrea.com. 24 Jan. 2018. Web.







(glacier image courtesy of BruceBlaus, CC 3.0, 2014)

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