Suspicious skin
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2010, Erin O’Connor-Garcia contemplates the new life…
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To slow a nation
To slow a beast, you break its limbs. To slow a nation, you break its people. You rob them of volition. You demonstrate your…
Read MoreDividing a dying woman’s land
Her eyes blur the fields. She shrinks to a seed, forgets to speak, forgets to say how footprints till the layers of her brain,…
Read MoreReal character
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But…
Read MoreExodus
After Rilke In the beginning, your word: Light And there was time. A long Absence, then your second: Man Who brought forth doubt; Uneasy…
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The rules
We stood on a curb in Winnemucca in the dark, December 1980. Snow-pellets swirled in headlights and stung our faces and scudded down the…
Read MoreSlippery stuff
You can’t build a house without nails and wood. If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don’t…
Read MoreLove of power
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its Administration, to confine…
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Risk 1
Chicago, Illinois (August 2016) Using a Risk board game, I was inspired by the countries’ outlines as a way to designate the shape of…
Read MoreThe man who lies to himself
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within…
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