The Science of Last Things - Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self is to resist easy thinking

is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives

Like a long winter’s dream

Hvordan du forvandler en and til foie gras og rabarberstilke til læskende sommervin

It was bought by them in 1919 as a country retreat

The Science of Last Things - Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self is to resist easy thinkingIn this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland Smith probes the raw edges of human existence, those periods of life in which our bodies remind us of our transience and the boundaries of the self dissolve. From the Old Testament to Maggie Nelson, these explorations are grounded in a rich network of associations. In an essay on the postpartum body, Wayland Smith interweaves her experience as a mother with accounts of phantom limbs and Greek