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On Being with Krista Tippett
It was written about hope, and the author rescued the word "darkness" from pejoratives, associating it with possibility and communion.
I wrote a book called Hope in the Dark about hope where that darkness was the future you know that we the present then past our daylight then the future is night but in that darkness is a kind of myst...
— Episode: Rebecca Solnit — Falling Together
Episode: Rebecca Solnit — Falling Together
It was written about hope, and the author rescued the word "darkness" from pejoratives, associating it with possibility and communion.
I wrote a book called Hope in the Dark about hope where that darkness was the future you know that we the present then past our daylight then the future is night but in that darkness is a kind of mysterious erotic enveloping sense of possibility and communion you know love is made in the dark and often is not and then to recognize that on unknowability as fertile as rich as the womb rather than the tomb in some sense
Episode: [Unedited] Rebecca Solnit with Krista Tippett
It was described as a book about hope where darkness was the future, and that in that darkness there was a sense of possibility and communion. The author discussed the book during an interview, noting its themes of hope and the importance of memory.
I had written a book about hope which is about exactly that kind of public life and larger loves.
And we're going to talk about hope a lot.
I wrote a book called Hope in the Dark about hope where that darkness was the future...But in that darkness is a kind of mysterious erotic enveloping sense of possibility and communion.
We're putting out a new edition of Hope in the Dark and I listened to his interview and he talked about how much hope is grounded in memory.
And there's a wonderful passage that's in the new version of Hope in the Dark coming up and about how the Russian revolution succeeded but not really in Russia.