M U L L A duel of ideas

Landscape of Loss

Helen Macdonald  vs  Sergio Pitol

Helen Macdonald engages with Sergio Pitol on confronting loss through nature. Macdonald describes the grieving process as walking through a transformed forest, while Pitol treats loss as a cartographic void that invites new mapping. Their imagined exchange shows how the external world mirrors internal absence and invites reconstruction.

Write about a place that now feels empty and what you imagine could fill it.

Whose side are you on?

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