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200 10$aOn the shoreline of knowledge $eIrish wanderings /$fChris Arthur
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2012
215   $a1 online resource
225  0$aSightline books
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aContents; Introduction: Going Round in Circles; Chestnuts; Lists; Looking behind Nothing's Door; Pencil Marks; Kyklos; Level Crossing; Absent without Leave, Leaving without Absence; Relics; When Now Unstitches Then and Is in Turn Undone; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Briefcase; The Wandflower Ladder; A Private View; Zen's Bull in the Tread of Memory; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text
330 8 $aThe carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation of the ordinary unerringly gets to the heart of the matter.   Bringing a diverse range of material into play, from fifteenth-century Japanese Zen Buddhism to how we look at paintings, and from the nature of a briefcase to the ancient nest-sites of gyrfalcons, Chris Arthur reveals the extraordinary dimensions woven invisibly into the ordinary things around us. Compared to Loren Eiseley, George Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Aldo Leopold, V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, W. B. Yeats, and other literary luminaries, he is a master essayist whose work has quietly been gathering an impressive cargo of critical acclaim. Arthur speaks with an Irish accent, rooting the book in his own unique vision of the world, but he addresses elemental issues of life and death, love and loss, that circle the world and entwine us all. 
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