![]() ![]() Solnit writes, “To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. With a series of loosely intertwined personal essays, Field Guide aims both to help give us the necessary education in existential abandon and to explain the merits of this state of mind. But to lose oneself in a city – as one loses oneself in a forest – that calls for quite a different schooling.” She quotes theorist Walter Benjamin: “Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. ![]() But in her new book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit offers a compelling case for a state more commonly avoided than aspired to. On the surface, it would seem that getting lost requires little instruction, and that few of us would want to improve whatever talent for it we might possess. ![]()
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