Elizabeth Rose Murray

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Magnitude II In a lesson on trying to make the abstract more concrete, one of my students, a Guyanese boy, late teens, shares a draft in which he’s counting the breaths of his sleeping girlfriend. He’s met her father, shook his hand – weeks later, the girl explains that her Akan blood arrows back up [...]

Magnitude* I There are a million grains in a 20 kilogram sack of rice. Give or take. It’s a hard enough number to imagine, the kind that slips through the mind’s fingers, like digging your hands in that same sack, trying to feel for individuals; the kind of counting that surpasses fingers, bigger than the [...]