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The Red Khémèresh by Mab Morris6/27/2023 (The book is at my own home I’m still living in my mother’s home to care for her. Even myself, whose parents were from South Africa!īesides my art books, and the literature ones, it is one of my treasured books on my shelves. He was absolutely correct in assuming his students had never really learned or explored beyond the history of Europe. He hammered home his disgust of more conventional approaches by having us read A History of Africa. I had only one professor throughout my upbringing to adulthood who took an unexpected-and quite welcome-approach to his World History class. Being a child of immigrants, having lived in other countries when my father was on sabbatical, I did have experience that opened my eyes to the blinders in that limited education. Most history and geography classes also focused on Europe throughout my schooling. Most of the fantasy fiction I’d read at that point seemed rooted in that mythology, culture, and landscape. I couldn’t but bring in ideas of Europe to the original book. Quite honestly the writing process for Ihyel is far more like I’m a tourist, bringing in my assumptions and discovering I’ve got it wrong as I explore a new country. I could have titled this post as “A bit like excavating,” but it’s not quite that. It is dim, because I work at 4am, before my mother wakes. My Moleskin journal opened to some notes about Ghost Bones, with the original book focused notebook for The Bone Reader.
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