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In all cases, at stake is what Pamela Ballinger � in her major study of ‘the terrain of memory� at the borders of the Balkans � refers to as ‘autochthonous . . . rights�, meaning the battle for the right to claim authentically to ‘belong� to a given area of land, rock and soil.
If there is a way of seeing such landscapes, it might be thought of as ‘occulting�: the nautical term for a light that flashes on and off, and in which the periods of illumination are longer than the periods of darkness. The Slovenian karst is an ‘occulting� landscape in this sense, defined by the complex interplay of light and dark, of past pain and present beauty.
The problem is not that things become buried deep in strata � but that they endure .
What did the mountaineer-mystic W. H. Murray say after being released from years spent in German and Italian POW camps? Find beauty, be still.
