Deer Man: Seven Years of Living in the Forest

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In this manner, he becomes another creature in their world and uses only a few items of his own (matches, a knife, a camera, and a small mirror among them) to survive and document his experiences. He became one with the flora and fauna and knew how to decipher dangerous plants from nutritious ones. I decide to base the rhythm of my life on his; except that, since my stomach has just the one chamber, when he chews the cud, I meditate instead. One night, an encounter with a deer changed his life: from then on, he knew he wanted to live among them.

Plus on avance dans le livre, et surtout vers la fin, il devient de plus en plus l’activiste qu’il est maintenant. The ending was glossed over with no real detail about how he left, said goodbye to the deer or managed to transition back into society and as a result it felt unfinished.Aangezien wij zelf ook opvallend veel herten zien de laatste tijd - op wandelingen maar zelfs soms vanop een baan of straat - beseffen we dat je waarschuwingen in het boek bewaarheid zijn geworden. Geoffroy vivía prácticamente solo, sin amigos y finalmente sin compañeros de clase, sus padres acabaron sacándolo de la escuela por sus problemas para relacionarse.

Charles Foster’s Being a Beast saw him live like a range of creatures, from otters and swifts, in a tragicomical rejoinder to the challenge thrown out by philosophers: “What is it like to be …” Such books are encounters, more than anything else, with sentience.Many, like Foster, who try to do this acknowledge that we need a disruption of power relations across the living world.