5/20/2023 0 Comments The overstory book reviews![]() ![]() The reward is that we can become better versions of ourselves. ![]() We must be able to suspend the centrality of our own worlds and experiences to fully immerse ourselves in the worlds that authors create for us. Playing with character perspective and asking that we view the world through the eyes of another, reading is an interactive process that demands both empathy and compassion. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer.”Īll fiction is, to some degree, an education. What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And their reward for opening their door to strangers was to live on after death as trees – an oak and a linden – huge and gracious and intertwined. No one would let them in but one old couple, Baucis and Philemon. Ovid tells the story of two immortals who came to Earth in disguise to cleanse the sickened world. “The Greeks had a word, xenia – guest friendship – a command to take care of traveling strangers, to open your door to whoever is out there, because anyone passing by, far from home, might be God. ![]()
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