“There is no longer a tripartite division between a field of reality (the world) and a field of representation (the book) and field of subjectivity (the author). Rather, an assemblage established connections between certain multiplicities drawn from each of these orders….” (Introduction: Rhizome, 23). Though this quote is taken from a scholarly journal written by, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari, its message is one that inspires connections to anecdotes, outside of the textual constraints of a novel. Bringing parallelism between how Gattari and Deleuze view a novels’ effect on its reader and how nature, as a whole effects and influences me.

            “Ironically,” despite its differences to the comfortable world of the affordances associated with the front country, “the only other place that made me feel so comfortable,” (http://perf10.blogspot.com/) is the backcountry, a place that so many others would see as the direct opposite of comfortable. It is here in which the influences of the world and representations of both written and unwritten rules of society have little impact, where the subjectivity of my story and my time spent in remote wilderness is left not only to myself, as the author, but equal weight is given to the uncontrollable forces of mother nature. Boundaries are blurred and it is with this blurring that I feel most comfortable and free to be myself, without the influences of so many factors that usually surround me in everyday life.