It's a reading day in the Outer Hebrides.

#outerhebrides #robertmacfarlane #underland #booksofmastadon

“We turn to trees when we are lost.”
—Deacon Miller

“I want to tell what the forests
were like
I will have to speak
in a forgotten language”
—WS Merwin

“What you remember saves you”
—WS Merwin

“Are we being good ancestors?”
—Jonas Saulk

“Literature is what makes trees immortal.”
—Thomas McGuane

👂to #PaulHoldengraber & author #RobertMcfarlane in this #LitHub podcast about #Underland & more.

https://lithub.com/robert-macfarlane-i-wanted-the-reader-to-undertake-a-descent-into-the-darkness/

#WoodWideWeb #WordWideWeb #Poetry #Prose #Conversation #PhoneCallFromPaul

#NowPlaying #WaxTrax
'Power #Ambient' mix, A Strangely Isolated Place (ASIP)
https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2022/6/8/portals-power-ambient

'ambient' so yes arrhythmic laptop wash; 'power' so too yes drone-mass, heavy somatica--as much #MBV as #BrianEno in the sonic DNA, if dignified+polite like icecaps melting...

...until final 15min: sawtooth tidal wave of glitch+bash+dense antiquiet hits shore. lonely machine buzz aftermath.

seaside-cave chapter of macfarlane's #UNDERLAND.

an extraordinary enveloping sonic narrative from ASIP.

I didn't so much read this book as experience it, and I absolutely loved it. #bookstodon #reading #underland
Check out this book on Goodreads: Underland: A Deep Time Journey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53121631-underland