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I. The Ends of Mourning The parking lot at our university’s recreation center is built over a burial ground, on land stolen from the Coast Miwok people. The exhumed remains have been reburied at a site specified by Native American observers. Still, that stretch of black asphalt on the Western edge of campus materializes a palimpsest: a scene of mourning effaced by the modern university as persistence that isn’t disrupted.
The medieval abbey at the center of Lauren Groff’s latest novel, Matrix, seems as supernatural as the chivalric romances that inspire it. The abbey’s nuns, led by the visionary Marie de France, build an immense labyrinth around their home. With indecipherable twists and turns through the forest, the labyrinth deters outsiders, invaders, and especially men. In this way, the nuns and the villeinesses on their lands “would be removed, enclosed, safe.
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