The Meadow and the Misread Author|Roy M. Close "Case of the Soane Museum

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The Meadow and the Misread Author|Roy M. Close "Case of the Soane MuseumThe Meadow and the Misread is about the intersection of memory and self, the way language is used to compartmentalize the whole pulsing blur of experience into distinct parts, and how the boundary between interior and exteriorself and otheris an illusion of memory and language. It also poses a question about agency, namely whether we can act upon the world, or if it only seems that way because we are stuck inside ourselves. In other words: Do we