[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f8a0fmhNcmbByjrLx0sHz7HHHgSZ2ISfTDgSJw8hin7w":3,"$f_Nc2a7JZk6aYOQmyUtx3Sm8_azGhiYbMwEUKiymwfDU":16},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},4474,"Kyo Maclear","K",34,null,"kyo-maclear",[12],{"tag_id":13,"tag_name":14,"tag_count":15},3802,"birds",8,{"quotes":17,"pagination":92},[18,26,32,38,45,51,57,63,75,81],{"id":19,"quote_text":20,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":23,"source":24,"quote_tag":25,"commentary":9},3207013,"How do you survive the survivor?",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":27,"quote_text":28,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":29,"source":30,"quote_tag":31,"commentary":9},3207011,"What if I stopped fighting for the trance of long-form days, where I would be uninterrupted and ambitiously absorbed in a big project? What if I gave myself over to time’s dispersion? Could I value the fractured moments as something more than ‘sub-time’ or lost time or broken time? Could I find a graceful way to work and be in the world that might still pull me up and forward?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":33,"quote_text":34,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":35,"source":36,"quote_tag":37,"commentary":9},3207000,"Sometimes we falter not because the ground beneath our feet is unstable but because it’s exhausting to keep moving, to keep trying, to keep performing the same actions again and again.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":39,"quote_text":40,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":41,"source":42,"quote_tag":43,"commentary":44},3206995,"Sometimes books have housed me and sometimes they have encased me.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\n\nKyo Maclear, a Canadian writer and literary critic, is likely the author of this quote, given her poetic style and themes often explored in her work. The era of her life relevant to this sentiment would be the 1990s or early 2000s, when she was actively writing about the relationship between readers, authors, and texts. During this time, Maclear's own experiences as a reader and writer were likely influencing her perspectives on the ways in which books can both nurture and confine us.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nThis quote reveals a profound paradox at the heart of the reading experience. On one hand, books offer a safe haven, a space where we can escape into new worlds and explore different perspectives. However, they also have the power to encase us, trapping us in their narratives, styles, and ideologies. This tension highlights the complex interplay between freedom and constraint that exists within the act of reading itself.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nWhen approaching a new book or text, consider the ways in which it may both shelter you from the world and enclose your perspectives. To avoid getting stuck in the \"encased\" state, try to maintain a critical distance, remaining aware of how the text's narrative and style are shaping your understanding of the world.",{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":9},3206988,"Our faulty memories and relatively short lifespans have made us unreliable witnesses. We are unable to truly grasp how much of the natural world has been altered and destroyed by our actions because the baseline shifts over time and generations have rendered us blind. Our standards have been lowered almost unnoticeably. What we might regard as pristine nature today is a shadow of what once existed. We can’t seem to remember how things used to be.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":52,"quote_text":53,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":54,"source":55,"quote_tag":56,"commentary":9},3206976,"What can you do within these narrow lines and this limited time? Who or what is stopping you?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":58,"quote_text":59,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":60,"source":61,"quote_tag":62,"commentary":9},3206957,"It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as “anticipatory grief,” the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory. This grief had a dampness. It did not drench or drown me, but it hung in the air like a pallid cloud, thinning but never entirely vanishing. 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