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My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing
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An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding--and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter, the nature of consciousness, and the bafflements of belonging. Structured around a series of formative, formidable coincidences in Dodge's life, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner, from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. Blending the personal and the philosophical, the raw and the surreal, the transgressive and the heartbreaking, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life.
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"My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing sifts through a relentless stream of inputs, nestling experiences and ideas to discover what might magnetize what."
"[Dodge] is as reluctant to write about his own work as he claims to be, these days, about making the scene."
"I found his thoughts on climate change particularly compelling ..."
"...[an] astute debut memoir ..."
"Dodge's challenging book provides no explanation for existence, but it does celebrate it, offering affable observations on family, death, and consciousness."
"Dodge's memoir is in no way linear, which may make it difficult to work through for some readers, and there's little context to the material ..."
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