Shadowing Vida Lahey
Bats, Books and Biographical Method
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2014.9Keywords:
Narrative theory, Vida Lahey, biographical methodAbstract
In bumper-to-bumper traffic along the Pacific Motorway at dusk, I edge south past the Logan Road exit towards the Gold Coast. Vehicles moving easily north have already put their headlights on. Flying foxes are massing against the darkening sky. These native megabats will find their way to food using their sharp eyes and sense of smell. As I watch, I am reminded of the microbats of another hemisphere. Those blind bats had prompted Thomas Nagel’s famous paper, ‘What is it like to be a bat?’
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