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Hilary Scharper
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Toronto, Canada
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September 2012
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Perdita
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2013
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Dream Dresses
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2015
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Perdita
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Hilary Scharper is a Canadian novelist who writes ecogothic fiction. Her current project embraces the “Canadian uncanny”—a series of (mysteriously) water-ly stories unfolding on each of Canada’s Great Lakes.“A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some.” – Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, 2017.Hilary is also a professor at the Univer
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity...and some scare see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
—William Blake (1757-1827)”
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—William Blake (1757-1827)”
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“To be sure, she is quick and sharp, and she sees things before they do, and that is why men do not like her, because it is not they who have shown her what to think.”
― Perdita
― Perdita
“And then, because I did not move and waited with no expectation, I heard the whole forest sigh. It was such a beautiful sound—the wind moving from one end to the other and all the trees stirring as it moved past them so that, all together, they emitted a long, soft, fragrant breath. My eyes filled with tears, for I felt that somehow my pines at home were there with me in that gentle sigh, and that these trees were friends.”
― Perdita
― Perdita
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“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
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“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.”
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“Book
beautiful
book,
miniscule forest,
leaf
after leaf
your paper smells
of the elements. . . .”
― The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
beautiful
book,
miniscule forest,
leaf
after leaf
your paper smells
of the elements. . . .”
― The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
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Hello! I thoroughly loved Perdita. The connections between people and nature really resonated with me. Lovely story about love.
