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So let us welcome back
to Tucson Maddie Norris.

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And this one took
me a little while:

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a sorcerer, a non-fiction caster
who draws on inherent magic

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from a gift or bloodline.

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Sorcerers carry a magical
birthright conferred upon them

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by bloodline, otherworldly
influence, or exposure

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to unknown forces--

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I'm sorry if I'm telling
you stuff you already know--

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and in the case of Maddie
Norris, possibly all three.

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Hurt into literature--
I mean, sorcery,

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maybe by the death
of her father,

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or maybe by the great
beauty and strangeness

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of the medical
illustrations in the book

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she spent time with
after his death.

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She wields an otherworldly power
honed by exquisite sentence

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training and long running in and
well beyond the wilds of Tucson.

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Her primary ability is wisdom.

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There is much to be
had-- much to be said

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and to be had about
grief and loss

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and how to be and to
stay open to feeling,

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how not to be simply afraid
of pain, but to fear it

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and to embrace it anyway.

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In her book, The Wet
Wound: An Elegy in Essays,

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a deeply ensorcelling text that
is not for novices to pain.

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But if you're here,
you're probably not.

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As a visiting
assistant professor

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at Davidson College in the
fall, she may or may not

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tell you that one
can't study sorcery

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as one learns a language
any more than one

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can learn to live
a legendary life.

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"No one chooses the power
of literary sorcery,"

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Maddie Norris writes.

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"The power chooses
the sorcerer."

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And the power has chosen
the Maddie Norris.

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