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Wilson Harris

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Also known as Sir Theodore Wilson Harris, Wilson Theodore Harris

Guyanese writer (1921–2018)

Person · Open Library

Born
1921
Died
2018
Works
77

Top works

  • Carnival
  • The eye of the scarecrow
  • The eye of the scarecrow
  • The Secret Ladder
  • The tree of the sun

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1947-04-02
alt-countryamericanacountrycountry folkcountry musiccountry musicians

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3
Total plays
212

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Quotes

  • (Breaking) ritual habit, ritual normality that seals our eyes and ears…you can advance, see things you never saw before, move out of boundaries that have been a prison.
  • The solid morning mist began to disintegrate and dark shoulders of rock appeared in the water giving the illusion of swimmers, reaching from bank to bank, dispersing from themselves wreaths of snakes with imperceptible strokes.
  • The flute sings of an ancient riverbead one hundred fathoms deep, far below the Potaro River that runs to the Waterfall. Two rivers then. The visible Potaro runs to the Waterfall. The invisible stream of the river of the dead runs far below, far under our knees. The flute tells of the passage of the drowned river of the dead and the river of the living are one quantum stream possessed of four banks.
  • Once cannot tame the voices of the flute, voices of such uncanny lightness yet miracle of being that they are able to tilt the two rivers, the visible and the invisible rivers, into diagrammatic discourse; and in so doing to create the four banks of the river of space into a ladder upon which the curved music of the flute ascends. Those banks are dislodged upwards into rungs in the ladder and into stepping stones into original space.
  • There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality […] open the partialities and biases of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions.
  • Cross-culturality differs radically from multiculturality. There is no creative and re-creative sharing of dimensions in multiculturality.

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