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‘Blackthorn – Whitethorn’ by Nigel G. Pearson
Original Ian Chambers Original Ian Chambers

‘Blackthorn – Whitethorn’ by Nigel G. Pearson

The underscoring theme of Blackthorn Whitethorn is that precise in-betweenness, the position of not-this not-that (Sanskrit Neti-Neti), a concept and means of apprehending that is as elusive as the roebuck being pursued — or that pursues us — and as thorny as the entangled thicket. This concept — arguably a fundamental ethos of witchery — demands that we adopt an alternate way of approaching, through poetic inference; for it is ineffable in the truest sense, and thence a Nameless Art.

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