{"id":6949,"date":"2008-05-19T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/chamber-of-abse\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T22:00:30","slug":"chamber-of-abse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/chamber-of-abse\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber of Absences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been taking great notes while reading <i>Prairyerth<\/i>, but I did<br \/>\ndog-ear a page for this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are several ways not to walk in the prairie, and one of them is<br \/>\n\twith your eye on a far goal, because then you begin to believe you&#8217;re not<br \/>\n\tclosing the distance any more than you would with a mirage. My woodland<br \/>\n\tsense of scale and time didn&#8217;t fit this country, and I started wondering<br \/>\n\twhether I could reach the summit before dark. On the prairie, distance and<br \/>\n\tthe miles of air turn movement to stasis and openness to a wall, a thing as<br \/>\n\tdifficult to penetrate as dense forest. I was hiking in a chamber of<br \/>\n\tabsences where the near was the same as the far, and it seemed every time I<br \/>\n\traised a step the earth rotated under me so that my foot feel just where it<br \/>\n\thad lifted from. Limits and markers make travel possible for people:<br \/>\n\tcircumscribe our lines of sight and we can really get somewhere. Before me<br \/>\n\tlay the Kansas of popular conception from Coronado on&#8211;that place you have<br \/>\n\tto get through, that purgatory of mileage. (82)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&quot;That purgatory of mileage&quot;&#8211;the horizontal vista of Chase County draws Least<br \/>\nHeat-Moon in. The expanse of long grasses is at times disorienting.<br \/>\nHe feels lost, but knows that no line can be walked for five miles without<br \/>\ncrossing a road. He is a journalist, a chronicler, a gatherer of stories.<br \/>\nSometimes he consults a map, such as when he stands in Cottonwood Falls with &quot;an<br \/>\n1878 bird&#8217;s-eye-view engraving of the town&quot; (52), but he also&#8211;sector by county<br \/>\nsector&#8211;<i>sketches his own<\/i>. This last point is important, I think. It<br \/>\nis the practice where his methods live up to the &quot;deep mapping&quot;&#8211;an ethnographic<br \/>\npresence in graceful suspense (not unlike North&#8217;s ten years of &quot;walking among&quot;),<br \/>\npart Geertzian &quot;thick description,&quot; but also meta-, also interested in the up<br \/>\nand out&#8211;the topography. This prairie topography can be experienced on<br \/>\nfoot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mulling over the relationship between Least Heat-Moon&#8217;s &quot;chamber of<br \/>\nabsences&quot;&#8211;the &quot;distance&quot; and &quot;openness&quot; of the prairie topography and (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/mt\/archives\/001829.html\">yet<br \/>\nagain<\/a>) de Certeau&#8217;s &quot;wave of verticals,&quot; the &quot;scopic drive&quot; he chides after<br \/>\nlooking out onto NYC from the 110th floor of the World Trade Center. What<br \/>\nis strange&#8211;exciting, even&#8211;is that Least Heat-Moon cannot figure out how to<br \/>\norganize his book until he appropriates a form from the grid of his hand-drawn<br \/>\nmaps. About maps, de Certeau says, &quot;They allow us to grasp only a relic set in<br \/>\nthe nowhen of a surface of projection&#8230;. These fixations constitute procedures<br \/>\nfor forgetting. The trace left behind is substituted for the practice&quot; (97). If<br \/>\nI may put that last sentence through a tumbler, what if, &quot;the trace left behind<br \/>\n<i>is<\/i> the practice&quot; or &quot;the trace left behind <i>invigorates<\/i> the<br \/>\npractice (of walking in the city\/prairie)&quot;? This windy adventure forks yet<br \/>\nagain at the distinction between the general-use map (with common place names,<br \/>\nconsensus, etc.) and that other, more self-selective attunement (an<br \/>\nexperiential, even egotistical sketch). <\/p>\n<p>About my own chamber of absences: I am warming up to the idea that none of<br \/>\nthis belongs in Chapter Five. But I nevertheless find myself happily stuck (not<br \/>\nstranded) on the problem of &quot;What about maps as a (databasic, interested)<br \/>\nwriting practice?&quot;. I don&#8217;t know. 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