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A review by katarinabee
The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright
5.0
This collection of essays from Fiona Wright was so wonderful. It explores ideas related to home, the body, illness, and the ordinary events and routine that make up everyday life. The essays include stories from her life, but also reference ideas from a wide variety of writers, including academics, essayists, and poets.
One of my favourite essays was 'A Regular Choreography', which looks at how familiar routines and habits form part of your sense of 'home'. It celebrates the ordinary rhythms of life, in a world where seeking novelty is so highly valued. "... our modern, global world has developed a 'vocabulary of anti-home', which privileges restlessness over rootedness, the transcendent over the immanent, and it means that we are conditioned to see standing still only as stasis, a kind of living death. But standing still, or moving in repeated tiny orbits - this is how we connect with, and cope with, the much more ordinary existence that really is the stuff of so much of our lives; unspectacularly, perhaps, but beautifully, gently, and in a continual and immanent present."
Another favourite was "A Gravity Problem", where she looks at illness and disability - how we conceptualise what these mean, and also what it means to live with chronic illness.
Overall, I loved this collection - highly recommend it!
One of my favourite essays was 'A Regular Choreography', which looks at how familiar routines and habits form part of your sense of 'home'. It celebrates the ordinary rhythms of life, in a world where seeking novelty is so highly valued. "... our modern, global world has developed a 'vocabulary of anti-home', which privileges restlessness over rootedness, the transcendent over the immanent, and it means that we are conditioned to see standing still only as stasis, a kind of living death. But standing still, or moving in repeated tiny orbits - this is how we connect with, and cope with, the much more ordinary existence that really is the stuff of so much of our lives; unspectacularly, perhaps, but beautifully, gently, and in a continual and immanent present."
Another favourite was "A Gravity Problem", where she looks at illness and disability - how we conceptualise what these mean, and also what it means to live with chronic illness.
Overall, I loved this collection - highly recommend it!