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The Border Project: New Work by Susan Harbage Page, by Matt Zigler
The Border Project: New Work by Susan Harbage Page
on nc artblog.
By Matt Zigler | Published: October 10, 2011
In the first part of T.H. White’s classic book, The Once and Future King, the young Arthur, known as the Wart, is turned into a goose by Merlyn as a part of his education. A young female is schooling him on what it means to be a goose:
‘Do you all come here from different places?’
‘Well in parties of course. There are some here from Siberia, some from Lapland and I can see one or two from Iceland.
‘But don’t they fight each other for the pasture?’
‘Dear me, you are a silly,’ she said. ‘There are no boundaries among geese.’
‘What are boundaries, please?’
‘Imaginary lines on the earth, I suppose.
on nc artblog.
By Matt Zigler | Published: October 10, 2011
In the first part of T.H. White’s classic book, The Once and Future King, the young Arthur, known as the Wart, is turned into a goose by Merlyn as a part of his education. A young female is schooling him on what it means to be a goose:
‘Do you all come here from different places?’
‘Well in parties of course. There are some here from Siberia, some from Lapland and I can see one or two from Iceland.
‘But don’t they fight each other for the pasture?’
‘Dear me, you are a silly,’ she said. ‘There are no boundaries among geese.’
‘What are boundaries, please?’
‘Imaginary lines on the earth, I suppose.
