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Breadcrumbs in the Woods

(stumbling through the great unconscious)

Name:
Gretel - lost but lucid
Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

-Edith Wharton, "Xingu"

Since there was nothing left, he must learn to embrace it; because it was nothing it was easy to hold.

-me, "Bartleby the Son of God"

He had said she was provocative; so she was, she needed to prove she was there to be seen; but the proof always, contradictorily, drove her to further uncertain agony of guilt and self-distaste.

-A.S. Byatt, The Game

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.
- Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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