To Read & To Write

Bury the past as deep as you like - whatever you do - if you don't make true peace with it - it'll come back to haunt you. You must make peace with it. For its substantially conceptual heft,   Underland: A Deep Time Journey is an easy-going, fascinating book of intense exploration that is concerned with what the unseen says about that which coexists with it as it goes unnoticed. Author Robert Macfarlane is concerned with uncovering parts of this Earth that many, if not most, cannot visualize - and this is not entirely due to its geography. In the Introduction, he writes: "An aversion to the underland is buried in language. In many of the metaphors we live by, height is celebrated but depth is despised. To be 'uplifted' us preferable to being 'depressed' or 'pulled down'. 'Catastrophe' literally means a 'downwards turn', 'cataclysm' a 'downwards violence'. A bias against depth also runs through mainstream convent...