Harvey’s point that “an event, process, or thing cannot be understood by appeal to what exists only at some point” is very applicable to\u00a0Goat Island, as Stella’s experiencing in trekking across the reach is a perfect example of spacetime. \u00a0Her illusions\u00a0represent how space and time are never separate or stationary, but rather always moving and entangled. \u00a0While her\u00a0reminiscences appear to be simply of the past, they seem to defy the rules of space and time altogether. \u00a0In terms of space, her venture is not only from the island to the mainland, but also from living to the afterlife. \u00a0In relation to time,\u00a0Bull tells her it is time to go\u00a0to the afterlife and\u00a0she replies “yes\u00a0I will, yes I did, yes I do.” \u00a0The use of different tenses here shows how she is not simply stuck in one dimension of time, rather as Harvey would put it: in a “field of flows.” \u00a0Although this can all be seen as a fantastical story,\u00a0it does\u00a0show\u00a0how our perception of reality\u00a0ties together all of our memories\u00a0and experiences. \u00a0For someone like Stella living so secluded on an Island, it makes sense that the people she was close with in the tight knit island community are those who come to her at such an emotional moment in her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harvey’s point that “an event, process, or thing cannot be understood by appeal to what exists only at some point” is very applicable to\u00a0Goat Island, as Stella’s experiencing in trekking across the reach is a perfect example of spacetime. \u00a0Her illusions\u00a0represent how space and time are never separate or stationary, but rather always moving and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331086],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}