Geographers say there are two kinds of islands. This is valuable information for
the imagination because it confirms what the imagination already knew. Nor
is it the only case where science makes mythology more concrete, and mythology makes science more vivid.
Desert Islands and Other Texts
Gilles Deleuze
Desert Islands and Other Texts
Gilles Deleuze
Continental islands are accidental, derived
islands. They are separated from a continent, born of disarticulation, erosion,
fracture; they survive the absorption of what once contained them. Oceanic
islands are originary, essential islands. Some are formed from coral reefs and
display a genuine organism.
Desert Islands and Other Texts
Gilles Deleuze
Desert Islands and Other Texts
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