Sometimes I dream of different kinds of plants Assemblage, Defiance, and Tenuous Connection
Trunk, (tree)stem: a metaphor, usually doubly wrong. 1. Trees do not move; their vegetational migration is called pollination. People who constantly talk about roots identify too strongly with oak and ash trees. When a person stems from elsewhere, does that mean that only their leaves are becoming G...
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| Published in | Transverse Disciplines p. 265 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of Toronto Press
31.08.2022
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| Summary: | Trunk, (tree)stem: a metaphor, usually doubly wrong. 1. Trees do not move; their vegetational migration is called pollination. People who constantly talk about roots identify too strongly with oak and ash trees. When a person stems from elsewhere, does that mean that only their leaves are becoming German? 2. The trunk /(tree)stem/family tree as a dynasty. A unit bigger than a family, an extended family, kin. A past that he managed to escape (and be it as an innocent child). Carved into him a tattoo that he traces in a new language.¹
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| ISBN: | 148750845X 9781487508456 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/9781487538262-015 |