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<span style="font-family: Lucida Console; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(255, 174, 87); text-shadow: 1.5px 1.5px 0px rgb(172, 66, 94); margin-bottom: 10px;">THE TERROIR</span>
<span style="font-family: Lucida Console; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(255, 174, 87); text-shadow: 1.5px 1.5px 0px rgb(172, 66, 94); margin-bottom: 10px;">THE TERROIR</span><br>
<span style="padding-left: 10px;"><i>planting seeds requires medium, soil, matter, mutter, mother - donna haraway</i></span>
<span><i>"Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place', and what it means is the sum of the effects of a localized environment, inasmuch as they impact the qualities of a particular product. Yes, that can mean wine, but what if you applied these criteria to thinking about <s>Area X</s> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 174, 87);">my personal reader</span>?"</i><br>
- Jeff Vandermeer, Authority (& me)</span>


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Revision as of 18:21, 3 October 2025

THE TERROIR
"Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place', and what it means is the sum of the effects of a localized environment, inasmuch as they impact the qualities of a particular product. Yes, that can mean wine, but what if you applied these criteria to thinking about Area X my personal reader?"
- Jeff Vandermeer, Authority (& me)


To Annotate

Fiction
⟢ Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
⟢ Story of your Life - Ted Chiang
⟢ The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino

Non-fiction
⟢ Ways of Being - James Bridle
⟢ Computer Lib / Dream Machines - Ted Nelson
⟢ Staying with the Trouble - Donna Haraway

Games
⟢ Chants of Senaar - Rundisc

Fiction

Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer

Fruiting bodies,” I replied, almost as if in a trance. “Forming words.

AREA X IS A WRITING MACHIIIIIINE!!!!!! ASAKJDFLSKJFKDSG